Dubby no wavers EXEK just released a video for their track “Replicate” which has them going to town on a car with a sledgehammer, what looks like a fence and their guitars! Directed by Tristan Strong and Chris Ackroyd, the video is interspersed with footage from 80s commercials and could be some artistic statement about society, our reliance on the automobile and the strains this puts on the environment. It could just be that it’s hell of a lot of fun to put a sledgehammer through a car window.Taken from the Melbourne four piece’s limited edition four-track cassette on newish Sydney label Time /\ Space, the track is a tense but buzzing number that seems a perfect fit for some car carnage.We spoke to EXEK’s Albert Wolksi about the car and the clip.Noisey: Whose Holden is/was that?
Albert Wolski: Joey Alexander from Bedroom Suck records. It was bound for the wreckers, so I bought it from him for $200. Is it therapeutic to smash the shit out of an automobile?
It's fucking exhausting. We beat that thing up for about six hours, and we were all sore as shit afterwards. In Texas there's a place called the Anger Room, where a 5-minute session of smashing old furniture and electronic equipment costs $25. Cars are better though. We all slept well that night.Was the destruction of a car meant to symbolise anything?
Not really. Though it did end up looking like a Holden ad. The juxtapositioning with footage of manufacturing and marketing works well and kind of looks like a perverse critique on the current state of the Australian motor industry.I like how Alex tries to spruce up the windscreen.
It's a big job, and he did it beautifully.
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Albert Wolski: Joey Alexander from Bedroom Suck records. It was bound for the wreckers, so I bought it from him for $200. Is it therapeutic to smash the shit out of an automobile?
It's fucking exhausting. We beat that thing up for about six hours, and we were all sore as shit afterwards. In Texas there's a place called the Anger Room, where a 5-minute session of smashing old furniture and electronic equipment costs $25. Cars are better though. We all slept well that night.Was the destruction of a car meant to symbolise anything?
Not really. Though it did end up looking like a Holden ad. The juxtapositioning with footage of manufacturing and marketing works well and kind of looks like a perverse critique on the current state of the Australian motor industry.I like how Alex tries to spruce up the windscreen.
It's a big job, and he did it beautifully.