Dirty Three is an Australian
instrumental rock band, consisting of
Warren Ellis (violin and bass guitar),
Mick Turner (electric and bass guitars) and
Jim White (drums), which formed in 1992. Their 1996 album
Horse Stories was voted by
Rolling Stone as one of the top three albums of the year. Two of their albums have peaked into the top 50 on the
ARIA Albums Chart,
Ocean Songs (1998) and
Toward the Low Sun (2012). During their career they have spent much of their time overseas, when not performing together Turner is based in Melbourne, White lives in New York, and Ellis in Paris. Australian rock music historian
Ian McFarlane described them as providing a "rumbling, dynamic sound incorporated open-ended, improvisational, electric rock ... minus the jazz-rock histrionics". In October 2010,
Ocean Songs was listed in the book
100 Best Australian Albums.