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On the Radar: Wreck and Reference

Sometimes it’s hard to balance “every day is an adventure” with “there’s nothing new under the sun,” and bands like Davis, California‘s Wreck and Reference don’t make it any easier. The duo, who recently self-released a six-song tape called Black Cassette, do away with the guitars that would generally drive even the more offbeat of their music, in favor of keyboards and samples. The result is a post-apocalyptic kind of aural misery, dense in atmosphere and classifiable mostly in the vaguest of vague terms: “experimental.”

I said not too long ago that I was going to stop using On the Radar as a means for covering the stuff I didn’t feel deserved a full review, and instead use it for its original intended purpose — i.e. spreading the word on bands I think are cool and/or interesting — and the work of Felix and Ignat (last names redacted; no word on which is “wreck” and which is “reference”) definitely fits in with the newfound purpose. There’s something in the lo-fi tragedy of “Evening Redness” that I really dig, and if life ever presented me with the opportunity, I’d totally be into seeing them play in some dude’s living room.

Check out Black Cassette below, courtesy of the Wreck and Reference Bandcamp page. They’re also on Facebook, if that’s your bag.

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One Response to “On the Radar: Wreck and Reference”

  1. Thom says:

    Hey,

    Just letting you know we are putting this out on CD and it comes in a 4 panel digipak with 8 page booklet with different artwork from the cassette version. Limited to 100 copies. preorders are up now.

    http://www.musicruinslives.bigcartel.com

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