Gripsweat is shutting down. Starting on February 1st, 2025 the site will no longer be doing daily updates, adding any new items, or accepting new memberships. The site will continue to run in this "historical" mode until January 1st, 2026, when the site will go offline. More information is available here.
L7 - Scatter The Rats [LP] Vinyl Record - BRAND NEW
Sold Date:
June 20, 2019
Start Date:
June 13, 2019
Final Price:
$16.98
(USD)
Seller Feedback:
41527
Buyer Feedback:
0
This item is not for sale. Gripsweat is an archive of past sales and auctions, none of the items are available for purchase.
Brand new sealed vinyl record. LPs are shipped in a sturdy 200 lb. test corrugated cardboard MIGHTY MUSIC MAILER to protect edges and corners.
L7 - Scatter The Rats [LP]
Blackheart Records48337 19191748337191915LPPunk
The first L7 album in 20 years, Scatter the Rats embodies everything that made the band so iconic in the first place-the distortion-heavy riffs and headbanging rhythms, sludgy grooves and indelible melodies. And in their lyrics, L7 achieve a direct transmission of raw feeling, often spiked with biting commentary on the chaos of the world today.
* Producer Norm Block (Jenny Lee, Paper Cranes, Plexi)
* Producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
''Burn Baby'' opens the album with a galvanizing reflection on letting go of old grudges for the sake of fighting a greater evil, while ''Fighting the Crave'' offers a slice of life on the inner push and pull of whatever one might crave. Throughout the album, L7 also examine depression (Sparks's ''Holding Pattern,'' which matches its delicate melody with a disarming vulnerability), lonely hearts (Suzi Gardner's gloriously swampy ''Murky Water Caf?'') and codependency (the unhinged ''Garbage Truck,'' written by Jennifer Finch). And on ''Uppin' the Ice,'' the band delivers a dance-worthy track inspired by a bit of advice Demetra Plakas got from her doctor upon breaking her arm before the band headed into the studio. ''I took the idea of upping the ice as a metaphor for throwing down and doing what you have to do to make something happen, naysayers be damned, because that's who we are as a band,'' says Sparks.
Format: single LP, standard weight black vinyl single-pocket jacket
Tracklisting Side A 1. Burn Baby 2:31 2. Fighting the Crave 3:22 3. Proto Prototype 3:13 4. Stadium West 3:43 5. Murky Water Caf? 4:00
Side B 1. Ouija Board Lies 2:59 2. Garbage Truck 2:27 3. Holding Pattern 3:06 4. Uppin' The Ice 3:33 5. Cool About Easy 3:23 6. Scatter The Rats 4:27
