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Chalk Teeth Present Haunting Darkwave Debut LP
Los Angeles dark wave trio Chalk Teeth release their self-titled debut album, featuring “Struck” and “Floor it.”
Shoegaze-tinged, motorik darkwave. Black glass synths, washed in noise-rock guitar, with Polish vocals, propelled by relentless drum machine pulses. Chalk Teeth is a Los Angeles trio by way of NYC and Oakland. Karolina on vocals and icicle guitar, Adam on avalanche guitar, and Jason on bass, synths, sequences and beats create a hypnotic, flickering dance rite, a live experience that cleanses your bone marrow with volume and frequency.
After an active two years performing across LA and NYC, Chalk Teeth release their debut album. Leading up to the album’s release, Chalk Teeth have released two singles accompanied by guerrilla production music videos via UPROXX and Occult Magazine: “Struck” and “Floor it” respectively.
After relocating from NYC to LA, Polish-born German-raised Karolina Wallace and her husband, Adam Wallace, reconnected with Adam’s childhood friend Jason Miller and soon began developing and performing primordial versions of the songs on their debut. Their collaborative approach quickly became central to the band’s creative process.
The band shares:
“Most of our songs started out as improvisations like 20+ minute long sprawling noise workouts over a bed of drum machine and synth sequences. Then we’d listen back and identify the parts that were most compelling, arrange them into a song, learn how to play that and then develop it until the song felt right, but it was a mostly very organic collaborative process. Once Karolina started adding vocals, everything fell into place. We let the songs evolve a little, playing them live for about a year and then recorded the versions on the album once they felt alive.”
The self-titled album is a fully DIY endeavour written, recorded, and mixed in the band’s North Hollywood rehearsal space by Chalk Teeth.
Jason states:
“We set up our rehearsal space as a little tracking studio, and I engineered the sessions and mixed the album. Our friend Antoine Richard, who is one half of the French label Hands in Dark, mastered the album.”
The record is an expression of human imperfection, discomfort, exuberance and bliss, compressed and emitted as elegant electronic doom.
Chalk Teeth ‘Chalk Teeth’ album artwork
The Xcerts: “Throughout all of that darkness making this record, there was an overwhelming feeling of love…”
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