| Bloody Lovely | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | DZ Deathrays |
| Cover: | Bloody Lovely Artwork, DZ Deathrays.jpg |
| Released: | 2 February 2018 |
| Studio: | Sydney, Australia |
| Genre: | Dance-punk, post-punk revival, alternative rock |
| Length: | 37:08 |
| Label: | I Oh You (AUS) |
| Producer: | Burke Reid |
| Prev Title: | Black Rat |
| Prev Year: | 2014 |
| Next Title: | Positive Rising: Vol. 1 |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
Bloody Lovely is the third studio album by Australian dance-punk band DZ Deathrays.[1] It was released on I Oh You Records in February 2018. Australian radio station Triple J picked Bloody Lovely as their feature album of the week in February 2018.[2] The music video for "Like People" featured one of the original members of The Wiggles, Murray Cook.[3] It was nominated at the 2018 ARIA Music Awards for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album but lost to Parkway Drive for Reverence.
The album was met with generally favourable reviews. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album has an average score of 63 based on 5 reviews. The lead single "Shred for Summer" placed within Triple J's Hottest 100, 2017 at no. 67[4] while the single "Total Meltdown" just missed out placing no. 109 within the Hottest 200 of 2017.[5] On 18 February, the album peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Charts and remained there for a total of two weeks.