With a handful of raucous, riotous singles to their credit, Table Scraps set both the bar and expectations high for their debut album.
It kicks off in fine style with one of those singles – ‘Electricity’ – a throbbing blast of muscular garage rock and then don’t let up for the rest of the album. Bursting with taut three-chord thrashes, trebled out to the max, the vocals swamped in reverb, ‘More Time for Strangers’ captures vintage the spirit and sound of the ‘Pebbles’ era. But the aggression is anything but retro, and even when they slow the pace as they do on the snaking ‘Bad Feeling’, the do so without dulling the abrasive edges. Table Scraps just don’t do mellow.
Elsewhere, the overloading blast of ‘Sinking Ship’ thrashes its way into grimy metal territory while the bratty ‘(I’m Not) Interested in You’ is loaded with snotty punk negativity. Nicking bits and pieces here and there from The Stooges and Joy Division and distilling them into a big fuzzy bucket of fuck you, with the most exhilarating results. The stomping ‘What You Don’t Allow’ ‘I don’t care what you’re gonna say / We’re gonna do it anyway!’ encapsulating their anti-authoritarian stance. On the strength of this album, you have to believe they mean it.
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