News: WRECK & REFERENCE ANNOUNCE U.S. TOUR, PREMIERE MUSIC VIDEO
California’s multi-instrumentalist masterminds Wreck and Reference have premiered another new song, accompanied by a music video, from their forthcoming album Indifferent Rivers Romance End (due out July 22nd through longtime partner The Flenser). Watch the video for “Ascend” today on BrooklynVegan;
it’s a winding composition interrogating the endurance of purpose,
love, and change, against the backdrop of disillusionment draining into
nihilism. In support of their new album, Wreck and Reference have a U.S. tour spanning July 29th through September 3rd. Check out the tour dates listed below.
Indifferent Rivers Romance End was
recorded by the band and mixed/mastered with Samur Khouja (Joanna
Newsom, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) in Los Angeles, CA earlier this year. The
album contains 10 new tracks, clocking in at 44 minutes in length. This
new album sees Wreck and Reference employ the pristine clarity of
IDM and the rhythmic flood of trap, as an experiment in pop, metal, and
noise with the increased use of digital synthesizers over previous
works, creating a greater sense of fluidity and movement.
Wreck and Reference formed in 2011 and recorded their first EP, Black Cassette,
in a garage, drawing upon the blown out intensity of black metal and
the angularity of noise rock, with themes of determinism and Cormac
McCarthy-esque isolation. Instead of guitars, the instrumentation on Black Cassette was constructed of samples played through distorted amplifiers. In 2012, their debut full length Y̶o̶u̶t̶h̶ represented a dramatic expansion of their sonic palette. In deeper, darker tones, Y̶o̶u̶t̶h̶ was
a reflection on the opposing forces of dismissal and longing for both
the past and the future, questioning the value of the life lived and
life that is still to come. These sounds and themes were pushed further
in Wreck and Reference’s second full length Want in 2014. Described by Pitchfork as having “radical vision” and “boundless experimentation,” Want expanded
into a darker and more brooding territory, plumbing the depths of
isolation, sadness, and hopelessness, as if written from inside a room
with only a dimming window into a perfectly callous world. In contrast
to Wreck and Reference’s past work, Indifferent Rivers Romance End is
an album that allows the possibility of change, even the necessity of
it, when the self comes to face the inevitability of continued life
amidst the construction and destruction of relationships. The cover
depicts a statue of Heraclitus, the tearful Ancient Greek herald of
change, tied to a brick and drowned in a river of liquor and dirt.
WRECK AND REFERENCE - ON TOUR:
7.29 - Los Angeles, CA - Non Plus Ultra
8.12 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
8.15 - Salt Lake City, UT - Diabolical Records
8.16 - Denver, CO - Juice Church
8.17 - Omaha, NE - Milk Run
8.18 - Ames, IA - DG's Taphouse
8.19 - Minneapolis, MN - Eagle's Club
8.20 - Chicago, IL - TriTriangle
8.22 - Columbus, OH - Double Happiness
8.23 - Baltimore, MD - The Crown
8.25 - New Paltz, NY - MLIBOG
8.26 - New York, NY - Alphaville
8.27 - Richmond, VA - Perfect Church
8.28 - Columbia, SC - Tapp’s Art Center
8.29 - Nashville, TN - Drkmtter
8.30 - Birmingham, AL - The Firehouse
8.31 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
9.01 - Dallas, TX - Three Links
9.02 - Austin, TX - Sidewinder
9.03 - Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture
Indifferent Rivers Romance End Tracklist:
1. Powders
2. Flight But Not Metaphor
3. Ascend
4. The Clearing
5. Liver
6. Modern Asylum
7. Manifestos
8. Bullwhips
9. Languish
10. Unwant
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