The Teeth’s first full-length album, “You’re My Lover Now” (Park the Van), is a population explosion. Songs fling shards of narrative about dozens of characters: lovers, friends, schoolkids, parents, depressives, liars, strivers, even partygoers tootling kazoos. The bits of stories arrive in an even more manic outpouring of tunes: honky-tonk, garage-rock, music-hall Merseybeat, frantic new wave and a final tinkly philosophical ballad with an apt self-diagnosis: “You got too many ideas building up inside of you.” It’s an overload, but an exhilarating one; these songs are worth decompressing. New York Times
Jon Pareles
Here, ["You're My Lover Now"] this Philly quartet manages to blend early garage rock aesthetics with Queen and Bowie's theatrical flare, resulting in ramshackle showtunes that successfully range from soulful ballads ("Ball of the Dead Rat"), to Cake-y swaggers ("Yellow"), to even something acoustic and sentimental ("It's Over and Over"). Never losing that goodtime-y piano bar feel, the songs of You're My Lover Now bounce off the walls with ostentatious crescendos and harmonies, keeping a keen sense of irony for it all. 91% Filter Magazine
Colin Stutz
There’s a screaming procession of carnivalesque lights flying from one ear to the next as if in that split second of pressing play, you’ve unknowingly given yourself over to a different power, one that controls light and sound and an entire textbook of feelings. There’s exuberance and joyousness and piss and vinegar. There is an unconscious outpouring of affinity for all that’s going on and you’re momentarily speechless like you’ve just been dunked into an icy river or been hit from behind. Daytrotter.com
Sean Moeller on "You're My Lover Now"
When handed an advance copy of The Teeth’s album, You’re My Lover Now, Nancy announced, “This is your new favorite band.”… Many of the new songs are immediately likeable, but there’s madness close at hand, and talent. The smart, image-rich, impassioned lyrics are worth paying attention to, though sometimes dark in subject, nothing’s sour--no whining but lots of howls and yelps. wired.com
By Travis Poortinga
OUR NEW FAVORITE:
You're My Lover Now, The Teeth
(Park the Van Records)
We could give you lots of reasons to listen to Philly's alt-pop band The Teeth-loopy arrangements, tight rhythms, serious-silly lyrics, comparisons to '60s pop and '70s glam rock-but you just need to know one thing: The Teeth are for people who relish music and life. Marie Claire Magazine
"One of my favorite new bands is Philly's The Teeth; they sound a lot like the early Kinks' records. They have really great chord progressions and vocal harmonies and are one of the few groups that have impressed me with their writing." RJD2 on The Teeth
XLR8R Magazine
"this band has Official High Pop Harmonies and you actually should listen to them and make them your new favorite band." The Fader
Alex Wagner
"The vocals on 'Carry the Wood,' the third recording by Philadelphia-area rockers the Teeth, suggest what Alex, the protagonist in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, 'A Clockwork Orange,' might have sounded like had he been a sunny, loopy petty criminal rather than a vibrantly bitter sociopath." The Washington Post
Pamela Murray Winters
"The Teeth's EP Carry the Wood (Park the Van) sounds like... well, bassist Peter MoDavis compares it to the movie Punch Drunk Love.
That's not a bad way to describe songs that twinkle, swoop, sting, and bang. Other relevant movies: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Harold and Maude, Head, and the last 20 minutes or so of Behind the Green Door." The Onion
Noel Murray
Hey, I know its really been a minute but your boy is back... Please, check out the new song "back with me" www. myspace. com/boladebentley Thanks for the support. Peace
Aw darn, you all were one of my favorites! I'm so sad to see that there will be no more to hear from the Teeth. I am looking forward to hearing more of The Purples though. A big thanks from all your fans for the new band! ;).
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xx "On a traffic light yellow means yield, and green means go. On a banana, it's just the opposite, yellow means go ahead, green means stop, and red means, where'd you get that banana?" - Mitch Hedberg
I had a dream that I was with you guys in a jeep exploring a mayan pyramid where new teeth songs were buried. There was even an action scene involving a chinese spy. I'm not even kidding.
I agree with my broken hearted Teeth brother below....It's a Fucking F-in shame! I really can't wait to hear more of the Purples which is an awesome new project from brian and peter.... It made me happy to know that the magic was still brewing.
This place has become a spammer's graveyard...it's a fuckin' shame. There were days in my life that I was happy, quite simply because I thought I was going to have years and years of music by the teeth to look forward to...i guess not. it's a fuckin' shame.
B. Ferrara
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