Craw / Craw: 1993-1997
| Album: | Craw: 1993-1997 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Craw | Added: | Nov 2015 | |
| Label: | Northern Spy Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2015-11-15 | Pull Date: | 2016-01-17 |
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| Week Ending: | Jan 17 | Jan 3 | Dec 27 | Dec 6 | Nov 29 | Nov 22 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 16, 2024: | Oh Messy Life
New Plastics Diet Alters Man's Dna |
4. | Jan 13, 2016: | Brownian Motion
Botulism, Cholera + Tarik (1994 - Lost Nation Road |
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| 2. | Jan 20, 2016: | Brownian Motion
Cobray To The North (1993 - Self-Titled) |
5. | Jan 12, 2016: | a strange pursuit
Aphasia (1993 - Self-Titled) |
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| 3. | Jan 19, 2016: | a strange pursuit
Cobray To The North (1993 - Self-Titled) |
6. | Jan 02, 2016: | Music Casserole
Wordfall (1993 - Self-Titled) |
Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2015-11-10
Reviewed 2015-11-10
Rerelease of obscure recordings of Cleveland band from late 80's-90's. Midwest/Chicago Touch and Go Records sound (but not on that label). Steve Albini recorded this stuff and oh how it shows. For fans of all things Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard, Big Black, Loga, heavy In Utero era Nirvana. Huge guitar bass drums as only Albini does (think bomb going off). Screamed desperate cathartic primal vocals like David Yow. This stuff has aged well. A triple record set being released on Northern Spy this December. All songs kinda have the same overall feel, follow a path of sorts: heavy pounding, sometimes chill but exploding, desperate vocs, so really pick any as track by track descriptions get redundant.
Self titled (very Scratch Acid)
1) (2:05) driving pounding. 2) (5:09) big heaviness with slow breakdowns 3)* (6:10) begins w found sound weird sample, halting heavy 4) (4:40) big heavy. 5) FCC? 6) (4:06) begins with mellow waltzing guitar builds of course, ends cold 7) (4:21) crunchy 8)* (7:19) nice feedback noise then a triplet type beat 9) (5:01) big bass 10)* (4:51) slow creepy intro, cool 11) (4:54) cool noise intro then near chugging beat mixed w slowness 12) (4:36) kinda epic chords 13) (5:03) begins slow quiet 14) (5:41) slow dirgey
Lost Nation Road (seems to delve from the recipe a bit, more interesting stuff in here)
1) (15, 4:39) duel screamed vocals, big bass, very Scratch Acid 2)* (16, 4:41) dark mean fades nicely into next play together 3)* (17, 5:30) starts slow multifaceted 4) (18, 2:54) skronking screaming sax gives this spastic jazz tone 5) (19, 6:43) cool dark intense tone, mathy with great noise in end 6) (20, 5:20) another dark one 7)* (21, 6:26) cool noise intro, almost jazzy element to this, more interesting 8)* (22, 6:11) cool stuff with samples at end 9) (23, 4:03) tritoned and mathy, slow breakdown 10) (24, 5:36) cool very Jesus Lizard
Map Monitor Surge
1) (25, 8:11) big drama 2) (26, 4:49) intense. 3) (27, 3:49) more intensity 4) (28, 3:44) mathy heavy 5) (29, 6:10) more 6) (30, 0:58) this and the following two are almost identical 7) (31, 1:10) mathy intense 8) (32, 1:10) identical to previous sorta 9) (33, 4:08) epic 10) (34, 4:05) kinda jazzy to start 11) (35, 4:37) more. 12)* (36, 12:05) long and epic
Self titled (very Scratch Acid)
1) (2:05) driving pounding. 2) (5:09) big heaviness with slow breakdowns 3)* (6:10) begins w found sound weird sample, halting heavy 4) (4:40) big heavy. 5) FCC? 6) (4:06) begins with mellow waltzing guitar builds of course, ends cold 7) (4:21) crunchy 8)* (7:19) nice feedback noise then a triplet type beat 9) (5:01) big bass 10)* (4:51) slow creepy intro, cool 11) (4:54) cool noise intro then near chugging beat mixed w slowness 12) (4:36) kinda epic chords 13) (5:03) begins slow quiet 14) (5:41) slow dirgey
Lost Nation Road (seems to delve from the recipe a bit, more interesting stuff in here)
1) (15, 4:39) duel screamed vocals, big bass, very Scratch Acid 2)* (16, 4:41) dark mean fades nicely into next play together 3)* (17, 5:30) starts slow multifaceted 4) (18, 2:54) skronking screaming sax gives this spastic jazz tone 5) (19, 6:43) cool dark intense tone, mathy with great noise in end 6) (20, 5:20) another dark one 7)* (21, 6:26) cool noise intro, almost jazzy element to this, more interesting 8)* (22, 6:11) cool stuff with samples at end 9) (23, 4:03) tritoned and mathy, slow breakdown 10) (24, 5:36) cool very Jesus Lizard
Map Monitor Surge
1) (25, 8:11) big drama 2) (26, 4:49) intense. 3) (27, 3:49) more intensity 4) (28, 3:44) mathy heavy 5) (29, 6:10) more 6) (30, 0:58) this and the following two are almost identical 7) (31, 1:10) mathy intense 8) (32, 1:10) identical to previous sorta 9) (33, 4:08) epic 10) (34, 4:05) kinda jazzy to start 11) (35, 4:37) more. 12)* (36, 12:05) long and epic
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