Effective period / Period of releases: 2022

Members: Mike Cadoo, Badger McInnes

Vague Lanes is a darkwave duo from the San Francisco Bay Area island city of Alameda. The band consists of Bay Area music scene veterans Mike Cadoo (Gridlock, Bitcrush) and Badger McInnes (Here We Burn, After the Apex). The duo favors driving drum machines and sparse synth ornamentation as a backbone for their dual bass guitar amalgam. The mere fact that the band consists of just two bassists becomes incredulous when one learns that both are left-handed. A unique, maybe even one-of-a-kind distinction: however, Vague Lanes is no novelty. Their debut statement, bluntly titled Cassette, due to its format, is a four-track EP that hints at the duo's classic post-punk ideology while adding modern detail. As a result, there is a dark, sometimes forked tongue underbelly with a juxtaposed lightness to Vague Lanes' music.