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Destroy - Everything - Always
"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
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"what thing is at stake for the guerilla of love against the code of feelings? - to save the instant from what is customary or understood."
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