"NEW LP out on not not fun records. 'Live On'. Check it out. Live material from our 2008 adventures chopped and screwed into 2 15 minute sides of dreamscape sound"
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"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department
"TEETH MOUNTAIN Ever screw around on MySpace, following friend links and listening to bands you've never heard of . . . and suddenly get your brain split open? Yeah, hardly ever, I know. But this unsigned Baltimore outfit, which I ran across just that way, works an astonishingly heavy and bouncy drone-dance style, thick with grainy bowed cello and indebted to Indian and north African trance music—plus they use an organ in a way that ought to get them arrested for indecent exposure. Granted, my soft spot for bands that do the Theatre of Eternal Music thing is amply documented, but that just means I know how rare it is for one to get so much mileage out of it—I think it's the way the drums and percussion drag the songs out of the lotus position and onto the dance floor."--Chicago Reader
" Fuck! Awesome electronic bizzaro shit from Baltimore - you know, that city where all the good music comes from? Here's some of it."--Sleepwhendeadnyc.com
"Teeth Mountain are one my favourite things I’ve heard in ages. I’ve deleted that and re-written it about five times, because when I re-read it, it sounds like the kind of crass statement that a seven year old would flinch at. But, each time I’ve deleted I’ve written it again. And now I’m not worried, because I think it might be true. Blimey.
A totally chance encounter (proving there’s life in the old dog yet) led me to their door on an evening wander, and amongst the nauseating background sat diamonds. Musically, there are shades of this, elements of that, but I’m far too discreet to get involved in that kind of business. We’re not fools. Photos suggest that it’s a result of an upsettingly free collaboration, with the kind of thoroughly controlled bedlam that most bands could only dream of. Saws are bowed, drums are banged by whoever fancies a go, percussion abound, cellos drone, hints of electronic devilry, everything everywhere. It should easily be wrong, but it’s really not." Tiny Dancing Blog
"Some, over in Baltimore (seems like fertile soil over there lately - whats in the cookies?) prefer to get all one with the spirit vibe and all kitchen sink tribal, bad recorder recital and Usaisamonster unplugged type-ness. Short but just damn lovely." 20jazzfunkgreats blog
"Teeth Mountain hail from Baltimore & sound bloody marvelous, a bit like Can stuck in a Porta Loo with the Velvet Underground." Just Press Play
"Let it suffice to say that between three percussionists, noisy cello drones, organic synthesizer tones, and a creative musical saw player, this was a performance that blew the lid off of typical mid-west shows and ensnared the crowd in a hypnotic musical spell producing as much wonder as compelling everyone to dance like the apocalypse was imminent." Hawaiian Winter Music Reviews
"The four tracks available for download on their MySpace are driven primarily by neo-tribal drums, which would seemingly put them in league with the rumbling sound of Bmore's Thank You. But "12 Plus Harsh Tanz" in particular is much more reflective. The guitar for me brings to mind the cracked post-1960s dream-psyche hangover of Pink Floyd, I'm thinking here of an instrumental interlude that might have been on Obscured by Clouds, or perhaps the contemporaneous Eastern-infused lines of Popul Vuh's Daniel Fichelscher. It's headspace music, to be sure, but in some places people dance to this sort of thing. " Pitchfork
"You may expect a sprawling hodgepodge of free sounds complete with weird freakouts, chiming bells, and the smell of burning incense from that description. However, that’s not the case with Teeth Mountain. What the eight-piece outfit does, and they do it incredibly well, is create a controlled mayhem of weighty neo-tribal trance music, packed with organic organ tones, distorted cello drones, and a skilled singing saw. Part Indian, part African, part Balkan, and part Baltimore, Teeth Mountain will enthrall you in a rhythmic musical spell." Friction NYC blog
"THESE GUYS ROCK. Amazing electronica psych jam-out with kids that play their instruments, including three drum sets, damn well." Arts and Culure Bostonia
"The music of Teeth Mountain. It doesn’t belong here. On Planet Earth. Or in the Milky Way. No, the eight-piece ensemble must be posting up and composing on some Coast to Coast-like netherworld before traveling to some pod in Baltimore (their so-called home base… we’re not buying it) and scaring the poo out of us in a good way. Take, for example, the tune “Keinsein,” a vocal-less Middle Eastern techno dirge through the cosmos, complete with bawling synths and multiple drum kits. On paper, it sounds like a hot mess. But after a while, the complexities break down and turn into one awesome and digestible listening experience." Phoenix New Times
"Although Baltimore, Maryland may not be the home of the new wave of tribal sounds in underground music, it is most certainly one of that movement’s centers -- as evidenced by Teeth Mountain, which uses driving percussion in layers like some bands use guitars. The outfit’s hypnotic drones, which at times recall the Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat, suggest that its members also learned a thing or two from the heady intensity of Crash Worship and the exoticism of Brian Eno’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. There’s an otherworldly sacredness to the band’s music that doesn’t sound like it could ever have come from a major urban center in these United States. If anything, it’s closer to the music that the people of Bali perform during the Eka Dasa Rudra ritual." Westword.com
"Not just pretty on the outside, the tribal electro soul beated record surges effortlessly." Bmore Music blog
"Teeth Mountain, a band from Baltimore, was originally on the bill. They set up a drum kit in a circle in the middle of the Funhouse floor and three people gathered around and started beating on them. Kate, one of the drummers, was the most interesting to watch; she hit the skins like she was exorcising demons. It was all string sounds and organs and the backbone of the thing, the neo-tribal drumming, created this psychedelic music using ancient sounds from Africa and India. It was really incredible. Unfortunately, they played for all of fifteen minutes, which was really disappointing, because it was the one drum circle I've ever attended that I could've watched all night." Seattle Weekly Online
"With three drummers, a bass/cello player and a guitarist/violinist/samples executor, Baltimore’s Teeth Mountain didn’t immediately strike me as steeped in a tribal/primitivist aesthetic. Once the act got going, though, its deep, thick layers of rhythms and overlays of ambiance, from the gritty to the sublime, established that the members were going beyond trying to evoke the roots of modern music and aiming at a primal, primeval human proclivity to create music that transforms consciousness and carries it to higher states...The whole set had a polyrhythmic, organic architecture that evoked visions of living in an age pre-dating agriculture and literacy, living in a world lit only by lightning, the moon, the stars and fire. Toward the end of this neo-ancient epic, I saw the cello player do some bends with his strings to produce truly otherworldly sounds. The combination of the fury of the percussionists and the weaving in of unconventionally employed instrumentation, including a saxophone for the second of the two song set, created a temporary sacred space that had to have left an impression on everyone else who was there to witness this extraordinary band." Backbeat Online
"So the event was not so much about picking highlights (the lively drum-and-drone workout of Teeth Mountain)...and more about rethinking the way you experience a show—basically, a genre-fucking triumph...Teeth Mountain pummeled with noise and drums but always felt inviting and joyous." The Village Voice Online. Review of Baltimore Round Robin Feet Night in NYC
"I haven’t come close to succeeding in describing this show adequately for you. The bizarre, fantastic, and insane knew no bounds. These elements were all too numerous to describe here, so let me briefly list the highlights: The female drummer from Teeth Mountain: This woman’s sexy, tribal style of drumming and the captivating music it made, blew me away. I could have listened and watched her play all night."--The Brooklyn Socialite blog
"Heavy sets of voodoo percussions mixed with droning rainbow piss electrocuted in seas of electronic bliss. Great stuff!" Sunflower Chakra Milk blog
"Teeth Mountain took a while to set up, but with 9 drums (3 drummers), an alto saxophone, violin, bass and some synths and pedal work no one could really blame them. To listen and watch three drummers do an entire improv set at once is completely entrancing and like a peyote trip gone just right." phrequency.com
"this was an awesome tape and it sounds pretty good, too; considering that this was not only live, but recorded in several different places. i think teeth mountain are now my favorite thing to come from baltimore since the wire." Smooth Assailing blog
"The Baltimore collective echo the meligned first version of Amon Duul in their refusal to acknowledge any kind of destination point for their jamming, but achieve a convincing state of suspension throughout, helped by some engagingly basic yet forceful drumming." Wire Magazine
"Teeth Mountain also wowed me with their tribal drumming and droning squall - they’re also much tighter than their record would suggest, and they’re the first two-drummered bands I’ve seen that have a good reason for having two drummers." Lost at E Minor
"Teeth Mountain: I’ll admit it. I was the jerk sitting down in the middle of the on-your-feet crowd. Want to know why? Because Teeth Mountain makes music tailor-made for popping a squat and basking in your atmosphere. So, quit it you guys. As always, Teeth Mountain made most everybody look like amateurs out there, and that’s all that needs sayin’." Aural States
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