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Grapetooth

by Grapetooth

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Zoe Hart
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Zoe Hart love love love the album boys, so so excited to have this vinyl finalllyyyyy Favorite track: Blood.
Kirk Gauthier
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Kirk Gauthier If you’re one of those people who thinks perfect albums are a thing of the past, you clearly haven’t listened to Grapetooth. This record embodies almost everything there is to love about music—synthpop or otherwise—in a mere ten songs. Is it the best album of 2018? Probably. But if you don’t buy it, how will you ever find out? Favorite track: Red Wine.
dalpo
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dalpo This debut album from the duo really feels like a creative love letter between the two going back and forth. It's creative as hell and introduces fresh beats throughout the whole thing. With genre-blurring songs and a fun, sincere disposition, there's no reason not to love this one Favorite track: Red Wine.
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1.
Violent 03:36 video
are you violent? I will vow my heart to you there’s nothing in this world that we won’t do how violent are you? they will come for us one day I will fight them all for you in our youth the angels turned away how violent are you? are you violent?
2.
Red Wine 03:59 video
it’s so easy going down as the wine hits my head my teeth start turning red float my name around town who now knows what she said you never learn fast enough you never hit hard enough it ain’t the leaving, it’s the going around as I watch the screen glow who’s she calling instead? as my broken eyes close who now lies in her bed? as my teeth turn all red?
3.
Trouble 03:12 video
trouble coming down! I don’t mind living! I don’t mind giving it up!
4.
walking in the rain remembering her name something must’ve changed something must’ve changed oh, was it on me at all? oh! won’t you call anymore? ...walking in a cloud you know it’s been a while since I made a smile since I made a smile was it worth my while? was it worth your smile? mile after mile mile after mile...
5.
Death 04:34
I don’t want to know you well I don’t want to know how you feel but I don’t mind your shadow on my shoulder… love me well you might as well you follow me around like a plague like a pestilent cell but i don’t mind my shadow in your arms…
6.
Imagine On 03:53
move on and imagine on lover mad original started walking backwards when you saw me down the road I let you go talking talking like you never tried to lay me low I let you go... ...pockets full of daddy’s dough powder in your nose you’re rock and roll you’re so rock and roll I can tell a story all about my stolen soul I bet you know yes i bet you know... imagine on, imagine on, imagine on my love never smile, no style original my love slow start, fast hart you’re a natural never smile, no style original my love
7.
Hangover Sq. 03:57
why so pale and wan fond lover? will, if looking well can’t move her, looking ill prevail? prithee why so pale? why so dull and mute young sinner? Will, when speaking well can’t win her, saying nothing do? prithee why so mute? nothing can make her the devil take her down to hangover sq. quit, quit for shame, this will not move, if of herself she will not love,
8.
Hallelujah 04:18
in a lonely way you know, it all makes sense waking up in your arms cause no one likes being alone and no one likes working too hard... and you know it should be easy finding a mind like mine and you know it should be easy but it aint... and you know it should be easy driving down that line and you know it should be easy but it aint... and on nights like these man, it’s nights like these... I can feel someone standing by my side… hallelujah! hallelujah! I can hear you calling for me… and you know it should be easy like lights along a wire... and you know it should be easy like smoke above a fire and you know it should be easy you know it should be easy you know you should be easy to find and I said to myself, “lord!” and I said to myself, “lord!” “I can feel you moving by my side!” and I said to myself, “lord!” and I said to myself, “lord!” “some things just aint easy to hide...”
9.
Blood 04:17 video
in my blood! on my tooth! in the night! I want it! I want it! turn you loose! on the moon! make you move! I want it! I want it! can you tell me a story? can you make it seem true? can you assemble another? I’m feeling dark and cool... I will remember nothing nothing's ever happened before I’m not in my reflection I’m not here anymore... can you look like another? can you make me look twice? we resemble each other we have the same eyes we will remember nothing nothing’s ever happened before we’re not in our reflections we’re not here anymore...
10.
Together 03:45
well… there’s often a bottle in my terrible hand well i’m often wishing I was a different man and when i use my head all that my mind does well it pictures me a place I wish I was but wherever you’re with me together is the best place to be well…. there’s often some reason for me to leave there’s often rumors of me to believe.. and i could be dressed in the finest suit of all but i’d rather be between your bedroom walls...

about

Concocting a freshly strange blend of synth pop and damaged folk music, Grapetooth is a band from Chicago that consists of Chris Bailoni and Clay Frankel.

The two don’t remember clearly how they met, but Frankel, home from tour with garage rock outfit Twin Peaks, began dropping in at Bailoni’s residence in the winter of 2015. The two began writing spontaneous songs in Bailoni's synth laden bedroom studio, which had long stood as the base of operations for his own wonderfully weird solo and producer work as Home-Sick.

By 2016 the two friends were sharing an apartment, along with a growing fondness for red wine, bad weather, and the music of Yukihiro Takahashi. Though still without a name or any intention to release their music, as roommates the two collaborated more and more often, at all hours of the day and night. Soon they had quite a score, and agreed to play a show opening for their close friend Knox Fortune for his upcoming album release show. They chose the name Grapetooth, an affectionate slang term for a wino, and decided to make a video in support of the upcoming show for their song “Trouble”, one of the earliest songs the two had written together. Like the song itself, which had been written and recorded in the course of one night inside Bailoni’s bedroom, the video was similarly unplanned and on the cheap, and they posted it online without further ado.The reception was encouraging, and the pair went back to the bedroom and focused on completing their album.

The album, set for release in November 2018 on Polyvinyl Record Co., captured a feeling the duo happily felt was somewhere between the doomy disco of 80’s new wave and the woozy laments of artists like Arthur Russell and Jeff Cowell. It contains songs about death and love and the movie “Badlands” and more than a few songs about wine.

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released November 9, 2018

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