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White T​-​Shirt LP

by Long Teeth

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Special edition vinyl pressing of White T-Shirt by Long Teeth. All tracks have been mastered for vinyl, lathe cut, and pressed on heavyweight, 180g magenta wax with blue and purple splatter. Features a full colour printed sleeve, inner sleeve, and disco bag, along with a double-sided lyric sheet poster insert. All proceeds over and above production costs will be going to charity.

    Strictly limited to 250 copies, sold direct from Black Box Recordings. When it’s gone, it’s gone.

    Includes unlimited streaming of White T-Shirt LP via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 200 
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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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(An Orchestra of Angry) Teenagers 03:03
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Lisbon 03:30
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Never Wanted a Job 04:12
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White T-Shirt 03:27
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Pangea 03:03
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Canned Laughter 02:28
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Nice Guys 03:49
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URA Winner! 02:43
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about

Who are Long Teeth? Well, they were what you could loosely describe as an indie-rock band, filtered through the post-punk of Talking Heads 77 and the freak-pop of Frank Black.

Starting in 2013 and running until 2018, Long Teeth were led by Sam Asbury on vocals and guitar, with Jade Ellins (Dolls) on bass, and Alessandro Salzano (Mate; Tony協Yap) on drums. The band cut their teeth on the London indie-punk music scene, building a steady fan base and a reputation for tightly coiled, high energy performances. They charged through a string of singles and two EPs, before entering indefinite hiatus following the untimely passing of Alessandro, drummer extraordinaire and mascot for humanity.

White T-Shirt is not so much posthumous release as definitive statement. Featuring a blistering A Side of all new material, the record opens with Teenagers, a post-hardcore flecked outing that is taut and austere before switching gears, turning from violent misadventure to manic farce. Lisbon plays knowingly with beach-bum guitar rock, tracking a lazy summer with a wandering bass line and polyphonic fuzz, before launching into a soaring chorus and a stand-out refrain. Never Wanted a Job is a wistful ode to aimless drift, its Hammond organ conveying the latent anxiety of false milestones with every flutter, while the title track reprises abrasive atonality for a darkly surreal trip through the psyche, exploring the Lynchian duplicity of our hidden recesses.

Side B features 2015’s Canned Laughter EP, pressed to vinyl for the first time. Canned Laughter showcases Long Teeth’s penchant for fast and fuzzy pseudo-pop, recorded with like-minded souls at North London’s Hermitage Works. Opening with Pangea, the band not so much reimagine the modern world as abandon it for an alternate reality, offering a vision of utopia spun on sugar-high vocals, call and response boy-girl shout-offs, and breakneck drum fills. Come-downs hit hard, with the title track displaying a jaded, forced smile cynicism, a mirror image Slack Motherfucker for the age of information saturation.

Penultimate track Nice Guys dips into twisted character, of bad faith companionship and scheming, leering malice from the so-called friendzone, driven home with snarling loud-quiet-loud intensity. Wrapping things up is the triumphant URA Winner!, a delirious charge for the finish line with the wild-eyed intensity of a Witch Trials era Mark E Smith.

White T-Shirt is a culmination of the band’s work, combining both EPs for one special edition release. All tracks have been mastered for vinyl, lathe cut, and pressed on heavyweight, 180g magenta wax with blue and purple splatter. Originally on sale at the band’s farewell show in November 2019, wider release was scheduled for Spring 2020 before Covid-19 hit. Now on sale after a ten-month hiatus, all money raised will be going to charity.

This is a record for fans, friends, and aficionados alike. It’s limited to 250 copies, sold direct from Black Box Recordings. When it’s gone, it’s gone.

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released September 4, 2020

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