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Meth Teeth - “Bus Rides” - 7-Inch - [Sweet Rot Records]
Author: Sleepi26.06.2008
Already out of press vinyl release on Sweet Rot Records by heavy distortion folk band duo from Portland featuring “Meth” Matt Hunter (guitar) and “Teeth” Kyle Raquipiso (drums) should freak you out with the cover art alone. Likely the work of Raquipiso, former art school student and recipient of Sub Pop’s Loser Scholarship, the sickly orange bus paint color and balloons with killer 70’s cartoon smiles are just gently held by a buried dead hand. Meth Teeth could plausibly be buried alive, and if they are, what they create underground is a hyper hoped up retreat into blown out speaker paper 70’s folk without the creepy drone of the Vancouver WA street people they idolize. Meth teeth are horrible abominations of disgust and nightmares to all the pretty indie children frolicking Portland with their crest white strips not to mention that actual pictures of the teeth are fucking rancid. The analogy is thus: Normal teeth are folk music, clean and innocent, but after the band corrupts them with filthy distorted garage musical style over them, they become Meth Teeth. It ‘s actually the exact way the band came to be as Hunter originally began the band as an acoustic folk solo project. The group is supposedly a trio now, so for the sake of this review, lets call them a four-piece.
-johnny darko
September 9th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
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