Photo Credit: Lacy Landre
For a while, The Scarring Party were one of the most active and visible bands in Milwaukee's music scene, which is a weird thing to think about when you consider just how wonderfully bizarre they were. The group's deranged, black-humored fusion of old-timey, tuba- and accordion-driven jazz and folk was like little the city has seen before, or may ever see again. This week the group revealed that they will break up after one last show at Company Brewing on Saturday, Aug. 8.
The news is something less than a surprise, given their relative inactivity in recent years. They haven't released an album since 2010's Loosing Teeth, one of our favorite albums of that year, a collection of macabre parables that the band recorded with Brief Candles’ Kevin Dixon and Call Me Lightning’s Shane Hochstetler, but they'll leave behind a parting gift. Their last show will double as a record release for their final album, the fittingly titled End Times. From the beginning the group was obsessed with demises, so it only seems right that now they get to celebrate their own.
Listen to Loosing Teeth below.
