Wreckery

One of the more important bands on the Australian post-punk scene of the 1980s, Melbourne's the Wreckery played dark, atmospheric music informed by the blues and the same sort of chemical and cultural obsessions as their contemporaries Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -- in fact, co-founder Hugo Race had been an early member of the Bad Seeds. Guitarist and vocalist Race formed the Wreckery with guitarist Ed Clayton-Jones in 1984; the group grew from an earlier project, Plays with Marionettes, which also featured multi-instrumentalist Robin Casinader, who had gone to school with Rac...