Shipwreck have a sound that somehow evokes the enigmatic, haunting, and sometimes dangerous allure of the open sea. It seems an all-too convenient metaphor, but in practice the metaphor feels true. Alternately placid and furious, Shipwreck melds quiet and loud in a way that might fall apart in lesser hands.
Their full length debut, Rabbit in the Kitchen with a New Dress On, is a sonic blast of desert heat that recalls a synchronicity between the dreamy darkness of Depeche Mode and the raucous abandon of the Pixies. Haunting images and fractured narratives create an enveloping reality of Lynchian eeriness.