Ashrae Fax Never Really Been Into It

The legacy of North Carolinas Ashrae Fax seems destined to be appreciated in retrospect, in no small part given to the tremendous power of the groups 2003 release Static Crash!, reissued twice from its initial CD-R run before appearing on Mexican Summer last year. The Goth/ethereal duo of vocalist Renee Mendoza and guitarist Alex Chesney had built a long, strange and mostly undocumented legacy prior to that release, and Never Really Been Into It extends the tale back even further: ten songs, sketched out in the late 90s, most of which were never completed and remained unheard until now. This wouldve been our first full-length, reflects vocalist Renee Mendoza, if we had any idea what we were doing [back then]. Rescued from a shoebox of ephemera from the bands earliest days, when Mendoza and guitarist Alex Chesney drifted out of high school and into the uncertainties of early adulthood, these songs were the product of a band whose members had nothing but time and ambition, influence a