Stay Calm by Wreck and Reference

For fans of Nine Inch Nails, Mamaleek, heavy electronic dance music, and an increasingly unserious existence in an increasingly serious crisis, Say Calm by Wreck and Reference stakes out a unique territory in heavy music to convey the crushing emptiness of a world with no future. Hyperactive production unites the most extreme edge of electronica, pulling from hard techno, dubstep, and noise music, with alternative metal sensibilities to form a bleeding mass of pure chaos. The contours of the songwriting allow for moments of tenderness and nuance within this hostile environment, but all stories of love and momentary pleasure dead end at the crumbling, doomed environment surrounding the action. With no future, our daily wins and losses amount to less than nothing, legitimizing our worst fears regarding our own futility and spitting in the face of our agency. Reduced to automatons set to expire at the near horizon, our feelings rush to frenzied expression in a vain attempt to overcome the crushing noise around us, the environment and the individual coalescing around the absolute nothingness of despair.