Table Scraps

What’s a band to do when the apocalypse finally comes and our brains are fried from being stuck indoors? Go bigger and better. 'Coffin Face', the new LP from Birmingham garage-psych/doom-garage/rock trio Table Scraps, is a serious record in the old-fashioned way that’s also kinda not serious at all.

Originally conceived as a concept album in 2018, where a band emerges from the rubble of a post-apocalyptic event, the very real catastrophe of 2020 meant that the LP became a soundtrack to reality rather than something more fanciful. Recorded and mixed entirely within the band’s lockup in Digbeth, Birmingham and with a welcome break after a punishing tour schedule around Europe and SXSW (where they soon counted Idles, Amyl & The Sniffers and Monster Magnet as new fans) the songs quickly became more expansive and ambitious with each of its 10 tracks now sounding like they would have sat comfortably on a hazily-remembered singles compilation of yore.

As the old saying goes in Birmingham: “It is what it is.” Coffin Face is a defiant statement that, end of the world or not, Table Scraps will continue to find their own way to obsessively celebrate rock music as a welcome respite for all of us in these troubling times.