Deadsexy and Honeysimple: The Mission of Scarce

It's been more than 30 years since rock music was still important and had great relevance. Artists were not pop bunnies who sang with computer voices, but stars with guitars, poets, explainers of the world.

We are looking back in a series. Today we have a look at “Deadsexy” by the lost and forghotten trio Scarce from Providence.

After a convincing debut at the height of the triumph of grunge with the 6-song mini-album “Red”, Scarce boss Chick Graning, bassist Joyce Raskin and drummer Mike Levesque switched from the popular Big Cat label to the major Polydor/A&M. Their first real album “Deadsexy” showed the trio from Providence in top form.

The quality of the opener “Honeysimple”, which combines weird guitars and the strangely disjointed choral singing of Chick Graning and bassist Joyce Raskin, keeps the following eleven pieces almost playful. “Deadsexy” is powerful and hard, freely quotes folklore and rock classics and proves that Chick Graning and his old band Anastasia Screamed quite wrongly received no attention whatsoever.

Sometimes more melodic like in the potential hit “Days Like This”, sometimes slightly metallic like in the catchy tune “All Sideways” and sometimes very close to punk like in the quatrain set to music “Sing Me Stella”, Scarce prove that there could definitely be something more to come after grunge