Whichever, they can’t help but be grateful that these voices and visions made their mark on this record, and can only hope the music has allowed them safe passage to the beyond. Teeth Of The Sea are frankly none the wiser as to what these disturbances meant and what caused them – a fissure in the astral plane, psychic disturbances brought on by societal collapse, or just a collective hallucination. I think this needs to be understood before listening to the album, since it helps explain where the band are going with this and, whatever the explanation for what they witnessed, there was a collective experience that informed the making of this work: Teeth of the Sea Bandcamp (accessed 8/1/19) For as much as the band were determined to create a vivid and maximalist work that threw all of the wildest imagination into sharp relief, what resulted summarily went beyond anything they could have expected. It wasn’t just the more familiar spectres of the band’s collective and overactive imagination – the unruly morass of ‘80s horror and sci-fi movies, industrial ballast, 2000AD terror, ‘70s-damaged experimental brinksmanship and atmospheric grandeur that they’d somehow conspire to sculpt into coherent structures. This, according to the press release, has been informed by a collective supernatural feeling that they had while recording this album back in November 2018: It was a massive brutalist concrete edifice which was, on occasion, afforded some very delicately carved stone-work.įour years later ‘Wraith’ is still observably a TOTS album, but the overall atmosphere of it is very different. So it’s been almost a year now and the question is, has all that suspense been worth it? Have TOTS produced yet another different but TOTS-like album? Read on to find out.īefore that though I am going to briefly go back to the band’s previous release, ‘ Highly Deadly Black Tarantula‘, which was stark and unyielding, yet with a fragile undercurrent which gave it depth and meaning. It was a set, as far as I remember, of new music… music which has informed this album. This was heralded at one of my musical highlights of 2018, when TOTS performed a blistering performance at the event celebrating 20 years of Rocket Recordings back in March. It is this restlessness that meant that the imminent arrival of a new TOTS album is one of my most anticipated musical events of 2019. I am fairly restless when it comes to my musical taste… I do not stay still… I am always looking for the next thing to excite me… the status quo is not an option. I think that it is fair to say that Teeth of the Sea (TOTS) are one of my ‘goto’ groups, and if you look at a list of such bands they all have one thing in common: constant evolution and innovation.
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