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  • Teeth Of The Sea 'Wraith'

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    Teeth Of The Sea 'Wraith'

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    Teeth Of The Sea 'Wraith'

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    When London's Teeth Of The Sea set about recording their fifth album, there seemed to be more than just the familiar spectres of the band's collective and overactive imagination at their disposal - 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 - instead, these ghostly interruptions - or wraiths - were of a distinctly otherworldly nature.

    In Soup Studios, located in the liminal zone of East India Dock on the Thames under the auspices of Giles Barrett, all such influences contributed to form a collection of tracks that represented a fearsome and transporting marriage of the ferocious and the melancholic.

    Alchemised trash, kitchen-sink surrealism, out-of-order intensity and ritualistic overtones collides and colluded into a monstrous hybrid - this was a world where Tetsuo-The Iron Man would happily share space with Judee Sill, and where the acid guitars of Helios Creed would happily conspire with the Acid Rock of Rhythm Device.

    Meanwhile, Erol Alkan helped sculpt a mixture of mariachi elegy and electro euphoria at his Phantasy Sound studios, whilst Valentina Magaletti (Tomaga/Raime), Chloe Herington (Knifeworld/Valve) and Katharine Gifford (Snowpony/ Stereolab) also willingly entered the fray to assist this unholy assemblage of inspiration, irreverence and otherworldly infiltration.

    Who knows where these voices and visions arrived from, yet we can only hope the resulting sounds help them gain safe passage into the beyond. Ladies and gentlemen, pray silence for the Wraith.

    'TOTS are merely vessels for a force operating somewhere beyond our comprehension of what can, and does, qualify as pop music' Clash

    'Space-disco juggernaut tunes into the transcendental infinite--a glitter ball in one eye, the other on the cosmos' Mojo

    'A record of real and rare magnificence' Drowned In Sound

    'Imaginary dystopian sci-fi disaster flick, with battered beasts gliding over a demolished landscape of deserted cities trapped in perpetual night' Line of Best Fit

    'Every track here is distinctive; a cinematic, mind-scramblingly complex yet cohesive mini-epic' Record Collector

    Tracklisting:
    CD:
    1.I'd Rather, Jack
    2.Hiraeth
    3.Burn Of The Shieling
    4.Fortean Steed
    5.VISITOR
    6.Her Wraith
    7.Wraiths In The Wall
    8.Our Love Can Destroy This Whole Fucking World
    9.Gladiators Ready

    Vinyl Running Order:
    Side A:
    1. I'd Rather, Jack
    2. Hiraeth
    3. Our Love Can Destroy This Whole Fucking World
    4. Burn Of The Shieling
    5. Fortean Steed

    Side B:
    6. VISITOR
    7. Her Wraith
    8. Gladiators Ready

    Release Date: 22/02/2019
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  • Teeth of the Sea 'Highly Deadly Black Tarantula' - Cargo Records UK

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    Teeth of the Sea 'Highly Deadly Black Tarantula'

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    In the last decade, the iconoclastic four-pronged force of Teeth Of The Sea has traversed from its origins in North London pub gigs and basement rehearsal rooms to far-flung locales that its members could scarcely have considered possible when they first began. Yet this band has never lost sight of its original vision - to reconcile a fearless experimental drive with a primal lust for noise. To exist outside of all or any compromise. Yet never to lose sight of the crucial irreverence of their inception.

    Their fourth album Highly Deadly Black Tarantula', in all its malevolent glory, may well be the apex of their mission thus far. Following in the wake of the release of their mind-melting third album MASTER''.

    2014 was a bizarre and thrilling year for Teeth Of The Sea, taking them to unexpected territory both physical and metaphysical - a re-imagining of the modern-day midnight movie A Field In England saw performances at both Cork Film Festival and Hackney Picture House, and was released on Rocket Recordings on a limited run for Record Store Day. A new audio-visual piece The Last Man was performed at both Cineglobe Festival in Cern, home of the Large Hadron Particle Collider, and at Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj-Napoca.

    What's more, the band travelled to America for the first time to perform in Austin, Texas for SXSW and to Portugal for Milhoes De Festa, as well as finishing the year off with a comprehensive demolition job of Liverpool Psych Fest.However, as 2015 dawned, the band set about reinventing themselves once again - both returning from the ornate and expansive sounds of MASTER'to their gnarled roots and pushing firmly forward in search of adventure anew.

    What resulted was Highly Deadly Black Tarantula', their most focused and aggressive album yet. Machine-driven yet melodically abundant, the widescreen industrial expanses of this album combine the influence of long-time band favourites like Aphex Twin, Angelo Badalamenti and Throbbing Gristle with new inspiration that spans from Chicago footwork to black metal. What's more, it's a collection as rich in scope as it is powerful in intent.

    Whilst the pummelling and incisive Animal Manservant'and the kinetic dancefloor attack of Field Punishment'maintain an audial assault both concise and corrosive, the monomaniacal Have You Ever Held A Bird Of Prey'represents a fearless plunge into the experimental deep end. Elsewhere, the bleak cinematic drama of All My Venom'strikes like hammer to anvil, and Love Theme For 1984'may be the most richly emotive work the band have yet created.

    This is no less than a vital reinvention, abusing technology and warping convention to arrive at a monochrome psychedelia as stylish as it is savage. Yet even whilst ushering in delight and deliverance for both fans of this band and the uninitiated, HIghly Deadly Black Tarantula'- a fearsomely coherent assault of post-everything dementia - sounds like no-one but Teeth Of The Sea.

    Tracklisting:
    1. All My Venom
    2. Animal Manservant
    3. Field Punishment
    4. Have You Ever Held A Bird Of Prey
    5. Phonogene
    6. Love Theme For 1984
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  • Teeth of the Sea 'A Field in England: Re-imagined' - Cargo Records UK

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    Swiftly following the release of their successful third album MASTER, Teeth of the Sea are proud to present a limited LP release of their re-imagined score to Ben Wheatley's metaphysical midnight movie A Field In England. This work sees London's most adventurous and intrepid psychedelic adventurers allying motifs and psychic spectres from Jim Williams and Blanck Mass' music and reinterpreting them to their own ends, arriving at a bold and richly atmospheric transmission that takes the rites and revelations of the original work into pastures new.Originally spurred into action by a commission for Cork Film Festival in November 2013, Teeth of the Sea worked on the audio-visual reworking with their long-standing visual collaborator Benjamin Barfoot (who also created the jaw-dropping 'Reaper' video last year and worked on the band's previous 'Beyond The Transfinite' piece, which debuted at Bestival in 2012).

    The first performance of A Field In England-Reimagined, in the converted church venue Triskel in Cork in November 2013, was a resounding sell-out success, as was a repeat performance at the enormous screen one at Hackney Picture House in January 2014. Inspired by this reaction, the band entered Lightship95, the studio housed on a converted ship on the Thames where they also recorded MASTER, to record the music to this half-hour travelogue. In the process, they found themselves travelling down unforeseen sonic  avenues- taking a notably more melodic and pastoral approach, these three tracks find them channelling influences like Flying Saucer Attack, Bobby Beausoleil, Popol Vuh and 'La Novia' era Acid Mothers Temple to mercurial and transformative effect.Teeth of the Sea's goal was to take the mind-games, the malevolence and the magick of the film as fuel for a work that exists on a parallel dimension to the earthen realm on which the protagonists carry out their actions.

    I. Whilst We Live In Fear Of Hell Chapter 
    II. An Ungodly Scheme 
    III. Open Up And Let The Devil In

    Housed in a sleeve featuring all-new artwork by Rocket Recordings seer Johnny O, and available in a limited edition on thick red waxHoused in a sleeve featuring all-new artwork by Rocket Recordings seer Johnny O, and available in a limited edition on thick red waxv
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  • Teeth Of The Sea 'Master' - Cargo Records UK

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    From the radiant consciousness of Britain's most intrepid sonic assassins comes a shattered mirrorball of a record fit to transform and transfix all that surrounds it in 2013 and beyond.

    Master, the long-awaited and devastating third album of Teeth Of The Sea, is an unprecedented junket into mind-melting abstraction and neon-drenched revelation.Nearly three years have passed since the band released 'Your Mercury', their transcendent second album, and the four-piece have kept very busy during this period-they've gigged constantly, sharing stages with the likes of Goat, Circle, British Sea Power, Trans Am and Parts And Labor, collaborating live with Wire and Esben & The Witch, and taking their incendiary barrage to festivals like Roadburn, Green Man, Supersonic, Supernormal and Standon Calling.

    Yet the evolution of their third album was most dramatically affected by two specially-commissioned soundtrack projects they embarked on-at Branchage Film Festival in Jersey, the band performed REAPER, a new live score to a re-interpretation of Neil Marshall's film Doomsday, and a year later, at Bestival on the Isle Of Wight, they unveiled BEYOND THE TRANSFINITE, a tribute to Kubrick's 2001.

    In this period, the band's experimental instincts have continued to extend in a myriad directions, and whilst MASTER nods to the established Teeth of the Sea touchstones of Throbbing Gristle, Goblin, Heldon, Angelo Badalamenti and Slayer, recent work by the like of Byetone, Pete Swanson, Raime, Powell and Prurient, alongside a long-standing fixation on the disco stylings of Patrick Cowley and Giorgio Moroder, have helped to mark out a gritty, confrontational path whereby abrasive and sparkling electronic textures do battle with waves of incandescent noise and a merciless beat-driven imperative to form a powerful alchemical charge.

    From the concrete and chaos of North London, Teeth of the Sea have taken the psychic spectres of their surroundings and allied them to the apparitions of their trash-culture fixated imagination to create a laser-guided metaphysical foray, cinematic in scope.


    1. Leder
    2. Reaper
    3. The Servant
    4. Black Strategy
    5. Pleiades Underground / Inexorable Master
    6. Siren Spectre
    7. Put Me On Your Shoulders So I Can See The Rats
    8. All Human Is Error
    9. Responder

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  • Teeth Of The Sea 'Your Mercury' - Cargo Records UK

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    The North London district of Manor House hasn't contributed a great deal to posterity over the last couple of hundred years. Yet this was where Teeth Of The Sea set up home in the dark early days of 2010, set to spend the next six months in an unprepossessing converted piano factory, sculpting what would become their second album, and now doubtless the most thrilling and transformative thing ever to emerge from Manor House: 'Your Mercury'. 2009 was a spectacular year for Teeth Of The Sea: In January, their debut album, 'Orphaned By The Ocean' was released, and its widescreen, experimental sweep of noiserock abandon and mariachi-tinged melancholia garnered plaudits and approval far and wide.

    In the summer, they toured with Oneida, recorded 24 minutes of searing psych-euphoria - to be released the following year as the 'Hypnoticon' EP - and devastated the Offset festival. However, following a memorable weekend of dates with Gnod and Thought Forms in November, the band decided it was time to document the dramatic transformation their sound had undergone.

    Six months of sepulchral visions, synapse-frying sonics and 7.4% cider later, what has emerged has startled even the band themselves. Balanced elegantly between electronic exploration and incendiary psychedelic freakout, these 46 minutes showcase a band whose expansive mindset has birthed a unique sound, more dynamic, adventurous and vividly atmospheric than ever before.

    'Your Mercury' exists on a strange and beguiling astral plane, whereby the boundaries between the synth odysseys of the 70s, the guitar-noise-fuelled-infernos of the 80s, horrorscore schlock, Reich-ian repetition, and a whole plethora of other cathode-ray and speaker-stack birthed epiphanies are blurred into one futuristic and fearsomely coherent whole.

    Teeth Of The Sea, the most exciting psychedelic band in the UK, have spun into a brand new orbit.  In the vein of:  Eno: Goblin: Emeralds: Butthole Surfers: Ash Ra Tempel: Liars.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:

    1. Transfinite
    2. The Ambassador
    3. Cemetery Magus
    4. You're Mercury
    5. Midas Rex

    Side B:
    6. A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.
    7. Mothlike
    8. Red Soil
    9. Horses With Hands
    10. Hovis Coil

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  • Teeth Of The Sea 'Orphaned By The Ocean' - Cargo Records UK

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    Rocket Recordings are proud to announce the release of Teeth of the Sea's debut album for the very first time on vinyl. 'Orphaned By The Ocean' released in January 2009, chronicles  the earliest days of Teeth Of The Sea, now on the verge of releasing their third album, Summer 2013's imperious 'Master'.

    Recorded largely at Dropout Studios in Camberwell, by South London underground legend Tim Cedar (Part Chimp/Penthouse/Ligament) it was the culmination of two and a half years of eardrum-shredding basement practices, premium lager and a reckless pursuit of an experimental mindset at all costs.Inspired and invigorated by shows and records by the likes of Boredoms, Comets On Fire, Lightning Bolt, Wolf Eyes and Black Dice, yet utilizing a sphere of reference that went far beyond the standard touchstones of the underground circles of the period, the four-piece lineup of Sam Barton, Mike Bourne, John Hirst and Jimmy Martin arrived at a turbulent, fiery brew that encompassed melodramatic giallo soundscapes, mariachi melancholia and kraut-tinged droning occultism.

    Haunting and alternately menacing and elegiac, the singular atmosphere of this album resonated powerfully in tandem with John Ball's eerily impressive artwork (characterized by the artist himself as 'Turner meets Ghostbusters').Orphaned by the Ocean, a far-reaching travelogue boasting an embarrassment of riches in texture, atmosphere and bloody-minded amplified overload alike, was the first stop along the road to oblivion for Teeth Of The Sea, and the last for John Hirst, who would leave the band shortly afterwards to be replaced by Mat Colegate.

    The band may never make another record like this one, and the unique position it holds both in the band's collective headspace and their history makes this reissue, on glorious Burnt Umber vinyl, one to savour for fans and new initiates alike.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Only Fools On Horse
    2. Latin Inches
    3. Coraniaid
    4. Swear Blind The Alsation's Melting
    5. Dreadnought
    6. Knees Like Knives
    7. Sentimental Journey

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