Scrid - The Island of Misfit Toys

The lovely album cover pictured there to left on screen is from the Iowa City based band Scrid. Originally formed in 1993 in Fort Madison, Iowa they quickly made the move to Iowa City thereafter. The album, titled The Island of Misfit Toys, was released in 1997 through the Lincoln, Nebraska based –ismist recordings after multiple years touring the country. The album would be the bands only full-length that I know of. They did later release a split 7 inch with the band Sludgeplow in 1999, again released on –ismist. There isn’t anything stating that they ever split up, but I am pretty sure that they are no longer around.

The bands sound wasn’t an uncommon one, however for fans of mega distorted bass and guitar with a dish of slower sludgier sounding noise-rock then this is an album that people may want to look into. They often got compared to the likes of Killdozer, partly because of the whole backwoods persona that they carried and probably also due to the less than serious subject matter of the material. Regardless though, it’s hard to really understand what Craig Owsley is saying/barking anyway so it’s almost irrelevant. To me they sound more like a mix of earlier Clutch around the Transnational Speedway League release and maybe the Cows. Either way, it’s some abrasive rock for sure. The Island of Misfit Toys caps off the album with a fifteen minute piece of nothing but samples of various explicit subjects, not really something I want to hear for fifteen minutes but the nine songs that precede it are absolutely fine by me.

Scrid – Oralfice [MP3]
Scrid – Hedgehog [MP3]

There are still copies available of The Island of Misfit Toys on Amazon, both used and new. If you dig the tunes above then definitely pick it up. Enjoy!