Wreckless Eric The Donovan Of Trash

The Donovan Of Trash is a truly punk record; a DIY, lo-fi milestone containing some of Wreckless Eric's finest songs, a fact sadly overlooked at the time of its original release in 1993 by fans and critics unable to get beyond the harsh, weird and often dissonant sound to discover the beauty within. This Fire Records reissue, remastered and repackaged under Eric's direction will do much to rectify this lamentable oversight. The album was recorded under difficult conditions in rural France: in a farmhouse, and in a village dancehall described by Eric as having been converted into a holiday home by a lunatic using pallet wood, hardboard and interlocking blocks made from some sort of plaster. More fractured and frenetic than his preceding album, Le Beat Group Électrique (reissued by Fire Records in April 2014), The Donovan Of Trash makes Eric's earlier, supposedly punk/new wave recordings sound positively middle of the road by comparison.