TEETH
TEETH is a band from Wellington, New Zealand, comprising Lukasz Buda (guitars, vocals, The Phoenix Foundation), Tom Callwood (bass, vocals, The Phoenix Foundation), David Long (guitars, Mutton Birds) and legendary drummer Anthony Donaldson.
The group’s genesis came when Donaldson tried out for the then-vacant Phoenix Foundation drummer’s stool – standing out as by far the most unique auditionee, he began jamming with Buda, who was excited by the idea of playing with Donaldson, as it would counter his natural inclination to buff everything to an ELO-type-sheen.
The band proper formed in 2014 as a vehicle for noisy, melodic, pleasingly psychedelic rock music, with weaving, intricate, harmonised guitars and a crunchy, rock-solid rhythmic core.
In 2017 they released their self-titled debut album. From nagging pop hooks, to hefty swathes of beautiful noise and insistent rhythms, ‘Teeth’ is an album to lose yourself in. With shades of Krautrock, tongue-in-cheek indie/ grunge, and a deceptively gentle and melodic core, it is a slow burn that reveals itself over the fullness of time.
Self-produced and recorded at The Phoenix Foundation’s much loved Car Club Studios in Island Bay (the band takes taking just three days), mixed by audio whiz Lee Prebble at his new Surgery Studios (again, in just three days), and mastered by the clever ears of Mike Gibson, it represents an audacious opening gambit from the self-styled “pan-generational Wellington supergroup”.
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