The new sensation hailing from Birmingham UK — Table Scraps — have announced the release of their debut album ‘More Time For Strangers’ on June 5th 2015.
Barely a year old, the duo comprising of Scott Vincent Abbott (formerly of The Big Bang) and Poppy Twist (formerly of Poppy & The Jezebels) have already developed a sizeable reputation for their fuzz & tape-echo drenched punk noise, built over a stand-up drum set and a single guitar fed through four amps.
When we heard the single ‘Electricty’ we thought it was “Pure, freak-out fun with decorative, bright-white vocals and thoroughly scurrilous accompaniments…”
Now we have listened to the album ‘More Time For Strangers’.
Here’s what we thought:
After the first track Electricity— ‘Foot Of Our Stairs’ jolts along like a caterpillar crawling down a tense live-wire.
It can move awkwardly. But shudders with every stinging sensation. And that low mud-filled bass is so sticky that it keeps it fastened down.
‘Bad Feeling’ (the second single from the album) has a vintage feel to it, with low elastic vocal chords.
Those trippy vocals are more corrosive than a slow dunk in a hot acid bath.
That riff cuts into your skeleton like smooth stainless steel pins. No wonder she has got a “Bad, bad feeling…” About things…
Black (or darkest grey) smeared guitar-lines together with a greasy mix of bass and some oily rock ‘n’ roll rhythms form the production for ‘Motorcycle (Straight To Hell)’ which sounds like a Chris Spedding number that has been perverted in a test tube by Doctor Victor Frankenstein.
And speaking of hit-makers of the 1970’s — what about Vampyre’s Bite? It sounds like a dark and sinister version of something made by the glam-progenitors ‘Sweet.’
‘Bug’ is jangly and a bit more light-headed. Woo-woo in style, and fully aware of its rock ‘n’ roll heritage.
This is fuzzy and stirring rock — made without the self-hatred of sludge or the misfortune of doom — it is Goth Punk served with vintage relish.
Words: @neilmach 2015 ©
Link: https://www.facebook.com/tablescrapshq
Here is the second single taken from the band’s debut album ‘More Time For Strangers’ which will be released June 5th on Hell’s Teeth records
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