Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 12:23:33 -0700 From: Ivo Lorelei (beswick@chaph.usc.edu) Subject: ok, this is the pops.... BAD 5012: Scheer, Schism EP This is a four song ep (the fourth track clocks in at 10:00 or so with an extra little track at the end of some british guy reading a poem or something). the first song is the song from "...think I'm getting the hang of it", Sometimes? Yeah, I think that's the name. The second and fourth songs are a lot like that, kinda grungy loud feedbacky wailing guitars with female vocals. The third song is a pretty ballady song with all of the guitar noise swept briskly away. Baby Size ... I think that's the name of it. The artwork is really cool. A charcoal coloured gatefold sleeve with gray stone-colored masks on each fold. It's really neat...looks like you'd get your hands dirty just touching it. Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 09:01:29 +0100 From: Andrew Norman (nja@LEICESTER.AC.UK) Subject: Pink Opaque & Scheer Bought the Scheer EP yesterday - heavy metal or what? Iron Maiden were on "Top of the Pops" the other week, and I thought how weedy and feeble they sounded - they could do worse than nick Scheer's guitarist. It's not the disaster that the Amps single is - "You Said" and "Take You Anywhere" are quite good songs, but the music! It conjures up images of greasy-haired motorbike enthusiasts bobbing their heads in unison and thinking "pity about the bird doing the vocals, they should get Bruce Dickinson in and write some lyrics about Satan". Mind you, Lush's first release was a "nice try, let's see how they progress" thing, so perhaps Scheer will see sense, kill their guitarist and make some good records. Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 23:27:20 -0500 From: rptaurie@MIT.EDU Subject: Too Pure newsbit and belated best-of-95 [longish] Scheer - Schism EP ================== It may be the heaviest thing 4AD's ever released, but it's not like they've gone and signed Slayer. Although Scheer gets a headbanging groove going sometimes, I think it's most accurate to call _Schism_ "pop with a metallic sheen". Picture a sporty Japanese hatchback painted metallic green with big orange flames (if you think that mental image is ugly, you should see the (brilliant) artwork on this digipack :-). In fact, Lush covering Ned's Atomic Dustbin wouldn't be too far from Scheer, minus the wanky guitar. But the wanky guitar is what makes _Schism_ stand out, and it's there to serve the songs, not vice versa - that's why I use the label "pop" instead of "metal". I've only heard one other metallic pop band use this many flourishes without going psychedelic, and they never broke out of Boston (Orangutang), so Scheer certainly doesn't have an identity crisis (not to mention that Orangutang was more ironic and their lead "singer" Christian Dyas would never have been likened to Harriet Wheeler-from-the-Sundays- with-an-Irish-accent).