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Artist:	WRECKERY, THE
Title:	Past Imperfect
Label:	MEMORANDUM (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MEMO 005CD

Melbourne 5-piece The Wreckery were one of the most popular Australian underground acts of the 1980s. They played a darkly-hued, twisted form of gothic blues, and were greatly influenced by The Birthday Party -- a band with which they were to develop several future connections. This double CD features 24 key tracks selected from the band's large recorded output. All tracks have been completely remastered and are presented here in a deluxe gatefold card wallet with a 24-page booklet stuffed with photographs, artwork and entertaining liner-notes penned by band leader Hugo Race. Hugo Race was a founding member of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds and has been based in Europe since 1990, where he pursues a successful solo career and is currently signed to Glitterhouse Records. Guitarist Ed Clayton-Jones has also performed with the Bad Seeds and collaborated with Nick Cave and Mick Harvey on the soundtrack to And The Ass Saw The Angel. Along with The Birthday Party, (and its many offshoots), The Scientists and Beasts Of Bourbon, The Wreckery helped pioneer the particularly Australian, "dirty-alternative blues" sound made popular again in recent years by other Australians like The Drones, The Stabs, The Devastations, Kill Devil Hills & Penny Ikinger.

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