When the Lost Sounds disbanded in 2005, Reatard reformed the Reatards to play live shows, and release the group’s third and final studio album, Not Fucked Enough , on Empty Records. However, the Reatards broke up for the last time a year later as Reatard embarked on a solo career.…
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The Reatards released two more EPs in 1998 and 1999, Get Out of Our Way and Your So Lewd , before distributing the band’s second studio album Grown Up, Fucked Up on Empty Records, in November 1999. The album was as primitive, albeit more structurally sound, as Teenage Hate but…
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Another Oblivians member, drummer Greg Cartwright , was impressed by Reatard’s recordings and joined him for his second EP, Fuck Elvis, Here’s the Reatards . By 1998, the Reatards evolved into a more proper band with the inclusion of guitarist Steve Albundy “Reatard” and drummer Ryan Elvis “Wong Reatard”. The…
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Credited with directly inspiring his sojourn into music, the garage punk band the Oblivians ‘ crude style motivated Jay Reatard to form his own one-man band, the Reatards, to record homemade demo tapes highly influenced by the Oblivians’ distorted, lo-fi garage sound. His earliest recordings, completed when Reatard was 15…
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