CAPTION: 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. (Prince William residents, call 690-4110.) THE TECHNICAL JED - "The Oswald Cup" (SpinArt).
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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. Since 1998's Nature Film, a mixture of new material, re-recordings, and a cover of Public Image Ltd.'s 'Public Image', the band have been inactive.
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They made their major label debut with 1996's Travel On, Rider. 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 band had also begun a lasting creative relationship with notorious producer Steve Albini at this point. "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. The closest thing to poignant in the bands. 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. Scrawl isnt the kind of band that performs disposable dance songs or weepy girl-loses-boy ballads either. Uh, correction: Scrawl's show at the Grog Shop IS the band's 2013 North American Tour. 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. Scrawl's 2013 North American Tour will bring the Columbus band to the Grog Shop on Saturday. During the bands live performance of their song, Modes of Emotions, Christian spontaneously pulled an empty wine bottle out of his bag and handed it to Tommy.
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FOR THE first major-label album of Scrawl's nine-year recording career, "Travel On, Rider," only the guitar sound has been adjusted. One of the raspiest rock bands to emerge from the pre-Nirvana late-80s indie scene, Columbus Ohios Scrawl made their mark with an unassuming album which. This bands profile is invisible, meaning that its much less prominent on the site - either because its incomplete, or maybe doesnt entirely fit MS format.