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In this episode of Buried on Bandcamp the podcast, we discuss: Rinse & Repeat, their music, and the stories they tell with it.

Rinse & Repeat is a band that I admittedly don’t know much about. I don’t even know the names of the members of the band. What I do know is that they are a duo from Los Angeles, but that’s about it. Their music is categorized on Bandcamp as punk, synthpunk, new wave, and darkwave. If you’ve listened to my first episode talking about the band Corker, this is one of the bands that I said I liked and was darkwave, which led me to discover Corker. And if you’ve seen my second episode, I mentioned I found Funerol by seeing that they were touring with Rinse & Repeat. So neither of those episodes would’ve existed without Rinse & Repeat! It’s interesting how one thing can lead to another. Honestly, I’d say Rinse & Repeat is one of my favorite bands at the moment, and that’s one of the reasons why.

https://rinseandrepeat.bandcamp.com/

Now, onto their music. (I’m going to have to go through this a bit quickly since their discography is much larger than those I’ve covered in previous episodes.) Their first EP, Fig. 1, was released on September 20th, 2017. I do think this is their weakest release, but that’s more than forgivable, seeing as it’s their first. Even from their first songs, you can hear the sci-fi inspirations in their work, and it will only become more apparent as time goes on. Raygun Rampage is my personal favorite, but they’re all pretty close. And I feel like Introduction serves as a perfect first song, for both the EP and their discography, for reasons I’ll talk about later. After that, they released a single, Throw the Switch, on November 17th, 2017, and a small EP with two songs; Y2Kme and Name of the Game on January 22nd, 2018.

Then, they released their second full album, titled Fig. 2, on May 1st, 2018. This is, in my opinion, the most lore-packed of their releases. There are lots of key details here, some much more explicit than others. My personal favorite on the album is Creator’s Comet, for packing so much variety into one three-minute song. I also found the bonus song, Again Again, since because it’s only on Bandcamp I didn’t discover it until long after I had initially listened to the album. I like the drum and bass in that song as well.

After that, they released their next album, Fig. 3, not long after on July 9th, 2018. It’s much shorter than the other two and doesn’t have as much explicit lore dumping, but you can tell they’ve improved since their last release. Only three days after that, they released two more songs; Battlecry and The Cycle, both of which are also heavily related to the lore. I really like the former of the two, since it’s so exciting and fun.