Teethe – Magic Of The Sale

Teethe announce their sophomore album, Magic Of The Sale, and release a video of the title track.

Before there was Teethe, there were other acts and assorted solo projects, all outlets for the four people who would eventually become a single band to write and record songs of their own. In Denton, Texas, a little more than a half-decade ago, the music scene gradually did what any good one should do: connected people with shared interests and sensibilities and encouraged them in turn to push, collectively, a bit further. For Teethe, the dual nexuses were house shows and a mutual enthusiasm for home recording. Four songwriters began to share once-siloed works, rounding out one another’s drafts until they’d steadily but casually built a record—Teethe’s 2020 self-titled debut, a loose and warm 12-track collage of exquisite existential blues and twilit harmonies. Their expectations were modest, but a few early cassette runs slowly led to several sold-out vinyl editions, unlikely name-drops from mega-stars, and several tours across the United States and Europe. Born of living-room jams and DIY spaces, Teethe seemed to stumble toward success on a path they proudly made themselves.

Magic Of The Sale represents Teethe’s natural next step: a second album, a record label, a slew of guests who represent their Texas roots and new friends they’ve made in recent years. Still, Teethe took special care to preserve the part of the process that made their debut so special, eliding an outside producer or any single strategy to instead let its four songwriters write and record by themselves in upgraded home studios before letting a cadre of collaborators add their own ideas. It is an end-around for industry expectations, from a band that never had any expectation of them.

The results represent a magnificent and rare accomplishment: a record not only where the homemade sounds as rich and full as any other record you may hear this year but also where four distinct songwriters, singers, and stylists ask a series of interlocked questions. What is it to build an identity and life for yourself in a time of shared collapse? What does it mean to exist and love right now? What does it mean to balance the needs you have with the desires of those who shape your experience, too? Magic Of The Sale is a sad and beautiful self-built world of Southern slowcore, where four people who have become confidants turn toward one another and drift forward, together.

It feels important to pause here and mention where the members of Teethe came from, to show some of the intersections that helped make their debut and now Magic Of The Sale feel so cohesive. A decade ago, not long after Teethe founder Boone Patrello began his band Dead Sullivan, he met Madeline Dowd during their earliest days at the University of North Texas. She started a band, Crisman, and then joined the group of Grahm Robinson, MAH KEE OH, for a tour alongside Dead Sullivan. After Jordan Garrett joined Dowd’s Crisman in 2019, the four people who would soon become Teethe were effectively interconnected. They played with one another in living rooms after their other bands finished practice and tinkered with reel-to-reel experiments, the stakes as low as any hangout but the connection high. If all those band names and rendezvous points along the way get confusing, just remember: They allowed the then-inchoate Teethe to connect without pressure or expectation, to discover the language they soon captured so elegantly.

Tour Dates:

09/05 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar

09/06 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon

09/07 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop

09/09 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall

09/10 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza

09/12 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Basement

09/13 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court

09/14 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall

10/16 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs)

10/17 – Austin, TX @ 29th Street Ballroom

10/18 – Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves

11/08 – London, UK @ Pitchfork Music Festival

12/01 – Nashville @ drkmttr

12/02 – Atlanta @ Aisle 5

12/04 – Washington, DC @ DC9

12/05 – Philadelphia @ PhilaMOCA

12/07 – Boston @ Brighton Music Hall

12/09 – Toronto @ The Drake

12/10 – Lakewood @ Mahalls

12/11 – Columbus @ Ace of Cups

12/12 – Chicago @ Schubas Tavern

12/13 – Milwaukee @ X-Ray Arcade

12/14 – Minneapolis @ 7th St Entry

12/16 – Oklahoma City @ Resonant Head

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