{"id":16791,"date":"2021-10-10T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16791"},"modified":"2021-10-07T22:54:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T22:54:29","slug":"table-scraps-coffin-face-hells-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16791","title":{"rendered":"Table Scraps \u2013 \u2018Coffin Face\u2019 (Hells Teeth)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u2018Coffin Face\u2019 is album number three from UK psychedelic garage punks Table Scraps and its one that comes hot on the heels of their track \u2018Motorcycle (Straight To Hell)\u2019 (from their debut album \u2018More Time For Strangers\u2019) having been brought to the attention of a potentially whole new audience by Monster Magnet\u2019s excellent lockdown released covers album \u2018A Better Dystopia\u2019.<\/p>\n

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I mention this from the get go simply because whilst both bands might – on paper at least – seem worlds apart, when you do actually dip your toe into the acid-tinged waters of \u2018Coffin Face\u2019 musical genres do start to merge and ultimately become totally irrelevant.<\/p>\n

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I mean great music is great music, right?<\/p>\n

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The ten tracks that make up this record were written and recorded before, during and after the ongoing global pandemic and via the likes of \u2018Judas Christ\u2019, the overdriven Zeppelin throb of \u2018Doom Generation\u2019 and the B-Movie magic of \u2018Never Liked It Anyway\u2019 we are taken us back to a time when they were selling hippy wigs in Woolworths and the end of a whole musical ideology was but one tragic festival death away from becoming a reality.<\/p>\n

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Originally conceived as a (cough) \u201cconcept\u201d album back in 2018, where a band emerges from the rubble of a post-apocalyptic event, the world events of the past 18 months made the songs that make up \u2018Coffin Face\u2019 less of a loosely themed concept and more a reality for the band, who this time around wanted to take themselves to a whole new level.<\/p>\n

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Adding third member TJ Mobbs on bass guitar, electric piano and synth certainly helped broaden their musical horizon around the time of their second album \u2018Autonomy\u2019, but here it\u2019s the fantastic doubled vocals of drummer Poppy Twist and guitarist Scott Vincent Abbott that have never sounded so hypnotic, especially on the double time proto-punk rattle of opener \u2018Threads\u2019 (which surely must also take a lead from the 1984 post-apocalyptic TV drama of the same name). It\u2019s when \u2018Big Man\u2019 steps out of the speakers sounding just like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have opened up an earthier Birmingham chapter that I can fully understand why the band say that recording Coffin Face\u2019 has either kept them sane or sent them totally insane, such are the multiple musical personality changes being played out within the album\u2019s half hour, which to their credit is something the band does without ever losing their focus on simply recording a great record.<\/p>\n

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Take \u2018You Only Wanna Get High\u2019 for example, this is a track that could have featured in a Matt Helm movie whilst \u2018God Of The Rainbow\u2019 has an almost second summer of love shoegaze vibe going on and then there\u2019s the glorious swoon of album closer \u2018Heartache\u2019 which just makes me flip the record over and play it all again.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve not stopped playing \u2018Coffin Face\u2019 since the slime coloured vinyl first dropped on my turntable a few days ago and I can see it staying there for some time yet, such is the strength of the songs on show here. For those who don\u2019t like vinyl (shame on you) the album also comes on CD and download and is available in a variety of different bundle options via the band\u2019s Bandcamp page.<\/p>\n

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Brothers and sisters, free your minds and give your aural taste buds a refresher in great music by simply clicking the link below. You can thank RPM later!<\/p>\n

Buy\u00a0Here <\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Coffin Face\u2019 is album number three from UK psychedelic garage punks Table Scraps and its one that comes hot on the heels of their track \u2018Motorcycle (Straight To Hell)\u2019 (from their debut album \u2018More Time For Strangers\u2019) having been brought to the attention of a potentially whole new audience by Monster Magnet\u2019s excellent lockdown released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7192,761,7191],"class_list":["post-16791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-hells-teeth","tag-johnny-hayward","tag-table-scraps","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16793,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions\/16793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}