Stream: The Wrecks, ‘Out of Style’

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The Wrecks (Photo by Darren Craig)

The Wrecks on Friday announced that their debut album, “Infinitely Ordinary,” will be out on May 1 via Big Noise. The news comes on the heels of the L.A. quartet’s latest single, “Out of Style,” which finds them in about the same place they were when we first met them in 2017: catchy, boisterous, clever, potty-mouthed and with about as much nuance as a locker-room conversation.

The Thousand Oaks-bred band — singer-producer Nick Anderson, bassist Aaron Kelley, guitarist Nick Schmidt and drummer Billy Nally — has two EPs to its credit. The tongue-in-cheek speak-singing that kicks off “Out of Style” bounces toward a typically bone-rattling blast of guitar. And, girl, Anderson just wants to let you know he’s in California sipping rum-and-cola and you’re not. The new single, on which Tim Anderson (IMA Robot) is a co-writer, is the follow-up to 2019’s breakup taunt “Fvck Somebody,” in which Anderson invites his girlfriend to do just that so he has an easy way out of the relationship.

The Wrecks, whose spring tour was scotched due to the pandemic, will be among the bands performing at the Block by Blockwest Festival on April 25. The fest, being streamed on Minecraft, also includes Pussy Riot, Citizen, Magdalena Bay, Nothing, Nowhere, Hunny, Fever 333, Oliver Francis, Courier Club, the Polar Boys, Deal Casino, Heart Attack Man and more, with proceeds benefiting the Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund. The fest will also be streamed here.

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