Consequence’s recurring feature series CoSign highlights a rising artist that’s captured our eyes and ears with a great new release. This go around, we’re spotlighting Texas slowcore outfit Teethe and their wonderful sophomore album, Magic of the Sale.
As fans of their excellent debut LP know, Texas indie rockers Teethe are more than conformable taking things slow. Beyond their Duster and Bedhead-esque slowcore sound, everything about the band — from its origins to the five-year gap between albums — is anything but rushed. Maybe it’s their southern sensibilities or the natural pace of their melancholic tone. Whatever the case, it’s a gear that works for them, as evidenced by their intoxicating new album Magic of the Sale, out Friday via Topshelf Records.
Their collective lack of urgency is immediately clear as I hop on Zoom with the act’s four songwriters: Boone Patrello, Grahm Robinson, Madeline Dowd, and Jordan Garrett. They’re warm but not overly bubbly, speak noticeably slower than the charged speaking patterns I’m used to up north, and give each question thought rather than jump into a rambling, half-baked answer. It’s pretty much the exact vibe you’d from them expect after spending time with their work, and as you learn about their sleeper rise in the underground, it makes even more sense.
In 2020, Teethe was less of a band and more of a convenient artistic accident. Patrello, Robinson, Dowd, and Garrett had their own respective projects operating in Denton while they attended the University of North Texas, filling in for each other’s bands for live performances when needed. Before long, their creative chemistry became glaringly obvious, and so when the foursome each had song ideas and sonic fragments kicking around without an obvious home, it made sense to compile them into… well, something.
“We had our own projects that we were focused on, and these songs kind of existed outside of that,” Patrello explains. “You couldn’t even really call it a band at the time. It was just a name for all of these songs to exist under. And then, you know, it was during the pandemic, so thinking about playing shows and all that was of outside of our thinking.”
And, really, that was more or less supposed to be both the beginning and end of Teethe.
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