Artist's albums
Change (In The House of Flies)
2021 · single
Absolute Still Life
2019 · album
What Goes in and Comes Out
2019 · single
Sturdy Dawn
2019 · single
A Mirror
2019 · single
Alien Pains
2018 · EP
Indifferent Rivers Romance End
2016 · album
Powders
2016 · single
The Clearing
2016 · single
Want
2014 · album
No Content
2013 · single
No Youth
2012 · album
Black Cassette
2011 · EP
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Biography
To date, Wreck and Reference have released four EPs and three full-length albums. Their first work, an EP titled Black Cassette, showcased distorted fragments and synthesizers in angular, heavy songs, with themes of determinism and Cormac McCarthy-esque isolation. Their debut full-length No Youth (2012) and their sophomore release Want (2014), described by Pitchfork as having “radical vision” and “boundless experimentation,” represented dramatic expansions of their sonic palette. In 2016, Wreck and Reference released their third LP, Indifferent Rivers Romance End, perfecting their song craft and pushing their noisy, sample-based instrumentation to its limits. Absolute Still Life is the fourth full-length album by the experimental duo Wreck and Reference. The album marks a radical departure from the band’s heavy and noise rock origins and finds them driving toward a more electronic and abstract dimension. Like past albums, warped synthesizers and pillaged samples build up the harmonic elements of the songs, but the absence of acoustic drums gives Absolute Still Life a colder, more alien aesthetic. With fewer screams and stranger textures than before, Wreck and Reference find themselves alone again in uncharted and uncategorizable territory.