The Scrapliners

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The Scrapliners

If it's broken, they'll fix it. If it's fixed, they'll sing about it.

Lorville, Hurston // Indie Rock / Space Folk / Salvage Blues

The Scrapliners are two brothers and two friends who grew up together in Lorville.

Jax and Rigg Rourke, Mek Lanner, and Jan Aroden spent years maintaining industrial equipment for Hurston Dynamics before taking what they knew and going independent.

They traded procedures for salvage, patched ships, questionable decisions, and considerably more laughter.

Portrait of The Scrapliners
“If it doesn’t fly, we’ll fix it. If it’s fixed, we’ll sing about it.”

ARTIST FILE // The Scrapliners

The Story

The four started with what they could afford: two patched-up Vultures and one battered Cutlass Black.

None of it was elegant. All of it worked.

Usually.

Long salvage runs gave them hours of repetitive work, and singing became another way to keep the rhythm. Jokes turned into choruses. Mechanical noise became percussion. Bad repairs became lyrics.

The My Mess songs grew directly from that life.

They are not songs about failure. They are songs about fixing what can be fixed, accepting what cannot, and loving imperfect machines anyway.

Madi Roa became part of the wider crew through logistics, field coordination, and occasional vocals, though she is not one of the four Scrapliners.

Nok first encountered them unloading their Cutlass on the Lorville cargo docks while singing, arguing, and laughing.

Nobody was performing.

They were simply having a good time together.

That was enough.

FEATURED TRACK

Across the Clouds // Track 02

A salvage song about patched machines, questionable decisions, and affection without perfection.

Origin
Lorville, Hurston
Members
Jax, Rigg, Mek, Jan
Work
Independent salvage
Fleet
Two Vultures + Cutlass Black
The Scrapliners

RECORD APPEARANCE

The Scrapliners

Across the Clouds

  1. 02My Ship, My Mess
  2. 04Duct Tape Dream
  3. 07Still My Mess
  4. 08Same Sky
  5. 09My Mess in Flame
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