1/10/2024 0 Comments Scrawl bandCAPTION: Scrawl's Sue Harshe (left), Marcy Mays and Dana Marshall sing tales of working-class punk rock life. Both appearing Tuesday at the Black Cat with Smart Went Crazy. The band is wholly sensitive but it is also hard: Proving Scrawl a rock band more than anything else, these fresh takes of Scrawl favorites and biting new. Founded by German schoolmates, Le Scrawl came into being in 1989. (Prince William residents, call 690-4110.) THE TECHNICAL JED - "The Oswald Cup" (SpinArt). Le Scrawl is the musical equivalent of such an experience, with the added element of bashing ones head against a brick wall. Scrawl fonts have letters that are written or drawn carelessly, or in a hurried manner. To hear a free Sound Bite from this album, call Post-Haste at 202/334-9000 and press 8131. With a little more personality, the album might even be as engaging as it is impressive. The following year the band was signed to the ill-fated Rough Trade Records U.S. Their first show, in the summer of 1985, was a 20-minute opening spot for the Meat Puppets. The female trios album Smallmouth is a blunt, minimalist catalog of the bare. Scrawl was an American indie rock trio based in Columbus, Ohio. There's even a reasonably engaging instrumental, with the reasonably witty title of "When the Levi's Break." This Richmond quartet doesn't definitively claim any of these modes as its own, but it sounds accomplished in all of them. The founding members were Marcy Mays (vocals and guitar), Sue Harshe (bass guitar), and Carolyn O'Leary (drums). "It might look like my wheels are spinning/ I swear they're spinning for a reason," sing Mays and Harshe in "I'm Not Stuck." Even more to the point is "He Cleaned Up," which sketches an archetypal bad relationship in four lines: "He cleaned up/ She took him back/ He up/ She kicked him out." By the time Mays has repeated that quatrain 23 times, it's clear just how much Scrawl can squeeze from the simplest of scenarios.Ī survey of indie-rock guitar-band styles, the Technical Jed's "The Oswald Cup" ranges from moody ("Two Shots") to bristling ("Idle Spec #2") to bright and tuneful ("Edith Peach"). Many of these songs are about people in ruts, getting out of them or insisting they're not in them. Originally the band were influenced by Grindcore and Deathmetal. Though producers Steve Albini and Jeff Powell sonically overload a few of the tracks, the Columbus, Ohio, trio's tales of working-class punk-rock life are as scrappy and poignant as ever. Le Scrawl was formed originally in 1990 by Peter Weiss and Mario Anders in Potsdam, Germany. The attitude and world view of singer-songwriter Marcy Mays has survived intact, as has the plaintive, almost-folkie way that she and bassist Sue Harshe harmonize. FOR THE first major-label album of Scrawl's nine-year recording career, "Travel On, Rider," only the guitar sound has been adjusted.
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