The Wreckery ::: Goth Post-Punk Doomy Blues-Rock

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Formed 1984, Melbourne: The Wreckery produced four albums in four years; creating a powerful sound that ranged from upbeat bluesy-goth-rockers full of fire through to intense gothic ballads full of drama and evocative passion. Members like front-man Hugo Race initially played in both The Wreckery and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Both acts came out of the Melbourne/Berlin scenes that were characterised by drugs and damaged, doomy, blues gothic sounds. The Wreckery's music started quite raw and became very polished, very sophisticated lyrically and musically. Perhaps it's like a midpoint between the wild chaos of The Birthday Party and the subtler later approach Nick Cave had with the Bad Seeds. It's a reasonable question to ask - just who influenced who the most? After splitting members pursued music careers: Hugo Race in Europe with dark blues-rock; Nick Barker had several rock-pop albums reach the Australian top 40 and some charting singles in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Wreckery Songs & Videos

IMHO many of their best songs are not on Youtube. You'll discover many of them via the links to the Wreckery Compilation Album. Tracks like Everlasting Sleep, Bending the Bars, Holy Honey, Kickdown, Governor's Pleasure, I Can't Say, Laying Down Law, the Understudy ... My 2 all-time favourites are The First Lesson and Darlin' Darlin' both sadly not on that collection. So here are some tracks that are on Youtube.

The Wreckery - Base Devil (1987) from vinyl