High-octane Aotearoa punk force Dick Move are renowned for their explosive live shows and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it anthems, blending party-punk chaos with razor-sharp political bite.
Energised by a strong community fighting for important social change and a need to turn late night political chat into action, Dick Move was formed in the depths of Karangahape Road’s Whammy Bar, and has become an essential party-punk voice for working people — and for all those that are fired up to make change in the world.
Dick Move spit out short sharp hot takes that call to the increasingly messed up world around them. Notorious for their pumping live shows, Dick Move’s catalogue of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it punk anthems are cutting, confronting, empowering and dripping with brash cheekiness and political angst.
Their third studio album, Dream, Believe, Achieve, out on Flying Nun Records / 1:12 Records, is classic Dick Move, 13 tracks of unrelenting energy delivered in just 25 minutes. The album features previously released singles including the fierce punk-rock battle cry ‘Fuck It’ – which delivers on what Dick Move do best: unbridled rejection of misogyny, control, and the systems that enable them, ‘Nurses’ – an empowering protest anthem, ‘Scared Old Men’ – where through snarling vocals and post-punk grit Dick Move confront the ways patriarchal systems restrict expression, exploit lives, and sustain capitalism’s broken machinery, and the short, punchy, hot take of ‘Shut Your Mouth’.
Other unreleased album tracks include an ode to public transport with ‘Up The Bus’, a love song and anti-gentrification anthem dedicated to their beloved ‘Karangahape Road’, and the reclamation of phrases ‘Try Hard’ and ‘Bludger’, further cementing the band’s status as one of Aotearoa’s most vital punk voices.
The album title, Dream, Believe, Achieve, subverts the toxic positivity of self-help culture, transforming empty mantras of individual wealth and status into a collective call for action and a better world. Across the record, Dick Move delivers a raw, loud, and pointed critique of systems that commodify our lives, bodies, labour, and land, reclaiming agency, voice, and power. As a whole, the album is a a fierce, unapologetic anthem for resistance. The riotous fury of Lucy Suttor, Lucy Macrae, Hariet Ellis, Justin Rendell, and Luke Boyes feels urgent and essential on every single track.
The album was tracked and mixed by De Stevens at Roundhead Studios, produced by long-term friend and collaborator Peter Ruddell (Sulfate, Wax Chattels), and mastered by new friend Mikey Young.
Maintaining momentum as socialist-party punk agitators is a challenge that the band face head on — and Dick Move will keep doing what they do best; shouting across oceans about things that matter, in a thick kiwi accent.
Release: November 14, 2025, Flying Nun Records / 1:12 Records