LE SCRAWL "Too Short to Ignore" CD

	LE SCRAWL "Too Short to Ignore" CD 1991-1998 LIFE 020 LP released by RSR in Germany OUT NOW!!
This is an epic 66 song thrash attack, clocking in at close to an hour. Totally demented and innovative grind thrash. Add a ton of jazz, and lots of ska, surf, rock, salsa, disco, bossa nova, ?, etc etc, backed by guttural grindcore grunt-roars and you have one fucked up cd. Much in the vein of John Zorn's NAKED CITY but alot groovier... add different horns (trumpets and trombone), accordian, spanish guitar, and mad Dr.Organ Grinder taking the lead. They do a few covers as well, everything from De La Soul, Terrorizer, to the Exploited, and CHIC but they practically rewrite the songs and make them their own. The discography spans the course of 9 years, taken from 2 mcd's, a few comps, demo tracks, and few live shows recorded in Slovenia. Alot of this stuff was released by the now defunct German label ECOCENTRIC RECORDS as well as PSYCHOMANIA records. LP released in Europe by REGURGITATED SEMEN RECORDS.
Track Listing: [01] Intro [02] Lynch for God’s love [03] Dusk and dawn [04] Tomorrow [05] Solitary confinement [06] If everything fails [07] Blue [08] 100 Doors [09] Contempt [10] Truth and belief [11] Leisure [12] Quest [13] Pale [14] Practice what you preach [15] Successive suicide [16] Entertain me [17] Dare ! (mp3) [18] Scorn [19] Think for a minute [20] Autumn [21] Rage [22] Shit system [23] Reprise [24] ClichÈ [25] Use your mind [26] Proud of shit (demo) [27] Untitled (demo) [28] Escape (demo) [29] Ring, ring, ring (De La Soul) [30] Don’t forget the chaos (The Exploited) (mp3) [31] Mission impossible (Lalo Schifrin) [32] Dead shall rise (Terrorizer) [33] Good Times (Chic) [34] Tomorrow (live) [35] Scrutinize (live) [36] Leisure (live) [37] Practice what you preach (live) [38] Quest (live) [39] Mission impossible (live) [40] Rage (live) [41] Shit system (live) [42] Scrutinize ! [43] Boundary [44] Proud of shit [45] Rage [46] Use your mind pt.2 (demo) [47] Tormenting survival (demo) [48] 100 doors (demo) [49] Blind confidence [50] Proud of shit (mp3) [51] Untitled [52] Bruises [53] Maroon [54] Too short to ignore [55] Scrutinize ! (mp3) [56] Boundary [57] Escape [58] Mental deficiency [59] Quest [60] Ambitious but weak [61] Cartoon (demo) [62] Revenge [63] Interlude [64] No way! [65] Inner emigration (demo) [66] Good times (live) Release Date: February 2003 Catalog #: LIFE 020
Reviews: Ignore the "Le", that's just a silly way to differentiate this Scrawl from the '90s US indie rock girl group. And they are VERY different. "Le" Scrawl is a schizoid grind band straight out of the German peace punk underground, doing the rapid-fire genre-mash thing. They belong in the same record bin with the likes of Naked City, Exit 13, People, Mexican Power Authority, Spazztic Blurr, Alboth!, Boredoms, and Anal Cunt (whose Seth Putnam guests vocalizes on one song here). If you're thinking that's a very '90s list of mostly avantgarde/novelty grind bands well, yes, this Scrawl stuff was recorded between 1990-1999. And we'd all but forgotten this band until the excellent Oakland label Life Is Abuse (purveyors of metallic weirdness like Tarantula Hawk and Ludicra) took it upon themselves to put together this cd, the complete Scrawl discography on one disc, essentially a deluxe, expanded version of Scrawl's "Q" album originally issued in 1995 by Germany's Ecocentric Records. Expanded in that you get the original disc's 24 tracks plus another 42 songs (!!) including their self-titled 1993 album, live stuff, singles, demos, and incongrous covers (De La Soul, The Exploited, Terrorizer, Chic, and the Mission Impossible theme!). Their humorous, herky-jerky musical juxtapositions plus their totally grim punk political lyrix (that you can't understand anyway 'cause they're all gruff and screamy) equals weird, radical, action-oriented artcore. Imagine the quirky European chamber prog of a group like Etron Fou Leloublan colliding with the 20-second blast beat grindcore of a Napalm Death, or Mr. Bungle gone crusty punk, or, when the horn section kicks in, some sort of ADD Fishbone/Uz Jsme Doma hybrid playing in the midst of a Drop Dead practice session. The booklet -- chock full of photos, flyers, and discographical information -- has a 2002 note promising some new (Le) Scrawl material coming soon! Yikes! - Aquarius Records