exclusive: TABLE SCRAPS TALK US THROUGH THEIR NEW VIDEO FOR "LYIN' THRU YER TEETH"

Birmingham's Table Scraps are among our favourite bands in the country. The trio make a guttural kinda garage rock in the vein of The Cramps or The Gories, and with ease bring to life pulp horror villains and spooks that go bump in the night. Last year they gave us the video to My Obsession, an exercise in charming retro 3D horror, and last month saw the release of their scorching second album Autonomy.

In fact, videos have always been a speciality of the band, as bassist Tim Mobbs is also a highly talented videographer. Last month we were treated to a sock puppet parody of 90s alt rock machismo for the I'm A Failure video, and now we get the video to Lyin' Thru Yer Teeth, another scuzzy cut from Autonomy. The video features the band dressed up as a manner of weird and wonderful characters, sort of like a freaky Guess Who. Speaking to us about the video, which you can watch below, Tim said:

"Once upon a time, we put on a show with a band called The Garden at our lock up in Digbeth, Birmingham. The next morning we discovered that someone had scratched the words “TABLE SCRAPS ARE HIPSTERS” on to the wall of our toilet.

"Needless to say, we were quite shaken by this. What even are hipsters in this day and age, and why are people still so bothered by them? For this video for Lyin’ Thru Yer Teeth we raided our own wardrobes to celebrate the lovable weirdos who populate our music venues and to learn a valuable lesson: being cool is as simple as putting on a silly coat and hat, so anyone can do it."

You can read our review of Table Scraps' Autonomy in Issue One, which you can pre-order HERE

Or just go straight ahead and buy Autonomy without reading our review HERE

premiere: 'OPAQUE', THE EFFORTLESSLY TRANSPORTATIVE NEW SINGLE FROM DOSE

Dose are a group from Newcastle, whom make art rock with a thick, impenetrable wall of sound. Often, the problem with dreamier, shoegazier groups is often that everything blends into one sonic blur, but, Dose are the antidote to this. There's a lot of clarity in their music, crisp guitar melodies and vocals that hover atop the miasma like a spectral overseer. Mesmeric, gripping, Opaque is their latest offering. Urbane uncertainty and a sound driven by pedalboards that look like spaceship control desks make Dose's sound the essential soundtrack to days rich in April showers.

Below, you can hear the MJ-produced Opaque, and find out more about it from Sean and Ewan from the band.

Tell me about Opaque. What inspired it?
Sean: Although musically the original inspiration came from messing around with a weird new pedal - Montreal Assembly’s Count to Five for anyone else as obsessed as me - Opaque began as a shift in sound for us, relying less on all-encapsulating effects and more on s…

interview: GET TO KNOW EYESORE AND THE JINX, LIVERPOOL GARAGE ROCK PROVOCATEURS

We held our launch at the beginning of the month with Wild Fruit Art Collective headlining, a real Liverpuddlian thunderbolt of a band. Until then, our primary focus had been on the scene brewing in London, alongside bands from a myriad of places that weren't all too far.

Now, we rotate our periscope north, to Liverpool. Whilst Wild Fruit remain amongst our favourite bands, Liverpool is seemingly crawling with other such bands that channel the same kinda gross and grimy influences into truly reptilian music. The bizarrely named Eyesore and the Jinx are our latest obsessions. Fire-breathing, yellow eyed grottabilly music on show, as they proudly unveil their debut single Gated Community.

At SEE YOU MATE, we regard it as our civic duty to inform you on such groups, and so here, Josh Miller dishes the dirt on the things that make the group tick.

Who is in the band, and how did you form? Can you tell me about the name?
The band consist of; myself on bass guitar and vocals, Liam Bates …

interview: WELCOME TO WHALE CITY... AND WIPE YOUR FEET ON THE WAY IN. WARMDUSCHER INTERVIEWED.

"I woke up this morning. I carved her name into my arm, kissed her on the cheek and said goodbye forever. No bags packed. No round-trip tickets. I’m heading straight to Whale City, where they’re all going to know my name. I see the lights off this full tank of gas. I watch these flames burn in the distance. I’m coming home. These golden rings will see me through and the dust is going to fill my lungs. My hands, bruised and bleeding from the constant pounding of the dashboard. Here it goes. Whale City.”

Gearing up for the release to the follow up to 2015’s under the radar classic ‘Khaki Tears’, we talk ‘Whale City’ with garage-scronk madcaps Warmduscher.

There are very few powers as raw, uninhibited or ferocious as that possessed by Warmduscher. The quintet are the bastard lovechild of Clams Baker and The Witherer (Paranoid London), Lightnin’ Jack and The Saulcano (Fat White Family) and Mr Salt Fingers Lovecraft (Childhood). Whilst their sound falls firmly within the realms of boo…

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