War On Words

War On Words are a small collective made up of three generations of musicians all located in Germany and Belgium. Lead singer and guitarist Recky Reck has been active as a musician, composer and producer/engineer since his teenage years in the late 1980s, working with well- and not-so-well-known artists of various genres from Germany and overseas.


War On Words see themselves as the legitimate contemporary executors of the music created by their heroes of the post-punk era, the short window of time in the late70s between what is now euphemistically called Classic Rock and the narcissistic monstrosities of the 80s. The band feel no shame covering some of the often forgotten hits by the likes of @ElvisCostello, @GrahamParker or @Fisher-Z, and their own songs reflect the rough-and-readiness of that era, with those gutsy non-sounds of slightly cardboardy drums, growly bass guitars, wiry electric guitars, thin organs, grating mono synths and simple, yet intelligently arranged backing vocals. This mélange of musical elements is edgy yet coherent, like a trip back to a time that saw some of us spend their hard-earned pocket money on the few vinyl albums we could afford.


War On Words sprang from the realisation that it’s 2022, there’s a war raging in Ukraine, and no-one‘s released an anti-war song. So the band got to work, dusted off Edwin Starr’s „War“ and declared themselves a band. Out in August, it’ll be followed byfurther singles throughout 2022 and 2023.