Local Bands:
The Undoing of David Wright
- Sound Description:
- The depths of dance despair
Based in Denton, TX
Songs
Band History
The Undoing of David Wright is an event that invokes in its witnesses that same sick, desperately nauseous sensation one has upon finding oneself enjoying something very, very uncomfortable. Like a shattered mirror rearranged, The Undoing of David Wright re-inscribes with each randomly shaped shard the archetypes and themes of classical literature and film in a noisy, angular abstraction of pop song structure.
Their live show is a frantic theatrical spectacle, with players lit and dressed to the tune of battered 1920’s German Expressionist film stars. Sampled percussion groans and strikes as progressive bass lines thunder along with perfect precision, laying a tight rhythmic foundation. Wild, erratic guitar lines and rambling vocals that schizophrenically play the parts of a plethora of insane characters complete the sound. The androgynous, made-up faces of these three dandy boys contort into spastic expressions as their panicked bodies fly across the stage and into the audience like innocents possessed. With a wide range of musical influences spanning several decades of musical history, pinning a reference point on The Undoing of David Wright is impossible. Comparisons are occasionally made to artists such as the Birthday Party, Oingo Boingo and Bauhaus due to their innovative songwriting and performance qualities.
Information from the band's site
Members
Albums
We Dig With Fingers Crossed
Influences
Screamers, Wire, Oingo Boingo, Bauhaus, The Birthday Party, Drive Like Jehu, Skinny Puppy, Iggy and The Stooges, David Bowie, Brainiac, Gang of Four, The Make Up, Joy Division, The Contortions, Guns 'N Roses, Devo, New York Dolls, Black Sabbath, Arab on Radar, XTC, Liquid Liquid, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Nitzer Ebb, Tom Waits, Mu, Talking Heads, Throbbing Gristle, ESG, A Certain Ratio, Daft Punk
Sound Description
The depths of dance despair
These users are fans:
Faved or commented on by...
Find...
an event
|
a restaurant
|
|
a garage sale
|
a drink special
|
|
a movie
|
local music
|
|
a deal
|
a job
|
a pet
|
a house
|
What do you think?