Police Teeth - Awesomer Than The Devil
Pre-order April 5
Vinyl (Black 150-gram, Pink Vinyl is sold-out)
CD
Available in brick and mortar and digital stores 4-26-11 (LP, also limited edition pink vinyl, and limited run cd-digipak)
1. Send More Cops
2. Summertime Bruise
3. Hatebuttoned
4. Rock and Roll Is A Pyramid Scheme (Parts 1 & 2)
5. Hatchet Wound City
6. Public Defender
7. Dude Handler’s Permit
8. True Stuff
9. Digital Snakes
10. Christian Rudolph, A Man of Science
ABOUT
Since forming out of the remnants of various Bellingham, WA Punk and indie rock bands in late 2006, Seattle’s Police Teeth have done their utmost to bring the rock back to indie rock. In that short time, they’ve released two full-length records (2007’s Jazz Records For Sale and 2009’s Real Size Monster Series) and have broken down stages at countless dive bars, coffee shops, youth centers, and stale basements up and down the I-5 corridor with bands like Fucked Up, Pierced Arrows, So Many Dynamos, Akimbo, and Bottomless Pit. They are now set to release their third full-length, Awesomer Than The Devil on Latest Flame Records, and are ready to spend the next few months eating your pizza, drinking your beer, and organizing your records. Police Teeth, good grief.
Awesomer Than The Devil
What exactly is the mark of real rock n’ roll? The music? The attitude? The tempo? The trousers? No. It’s the ability of a band to induce listeners to completely lose themselves in the music, to turn it UP as far as it will go and fuck the neighbors, fuck your parents, fuck everything, while at the same time enjoying a good laugh at everyone’s expense. This is something that Seattle-based Police Teeth have honed to a fine art since their formation in 2006, and which is at the heart of Awesomer Than The Devil, their debut album for Latest Flame Records.
Police Teeth’s previous albums, 2007’s Jazz Records For Sale and 2009’s Real Size Monster Series (both issued on the Blood City label) were modern classics in their own right, containing, as they did, insanely great songs like “Motherfuckers Move Slow” and “Northern California”, but with Awesomer Than The Devil James Burns (v, gtr), Rich Boyer (d), Adam Grunke (gtr), and Chris Rasmussen (v, bs) have taken years of playing, touring, and experiences – good and bad – and distilled them into a record which is already being hailed as among 2011’s best.
From the barely controlled, overdriven chaos of the opening “Send More Cops”, to the brooding, measured “Public Defender”, to the damn-near-pop of “Dude Handler’s Permit” (as well as a nine-minue plus cover of Factory Records obscurity “Watching The Hydroplanes”, originally recorded by Blackpool band Tunnel Vision) Police Teeth Manage to cover mass amounts of ground without sacrificing their distinctive voice. Noisy? Mm-hmm. Guitars? Oh yeah. But that’s just the beginning. This is an album that not only sounds like no one else, but is also layered enough to reveal new elements with each listen. This is music for people who actually LIKE music, not those for whom music is a social tool.
However great the record is, though, the live Police Teeth experience is a real treat. Having played hundreds of shows up and down the West coast with kindred spirits such as Mount Vicious and Victory and Associates, as well as infrequent journeys to locales as far east as Chicago, Police Teeth plan to follow the release of Awesomer Than The Devil in April with Midwest and West Coast tours in summer, and intend to cover the rest of the country soon after. Come down, hang out, buy them drinks. They’ll appreciate it, and so will you.
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