Hustle Beach

Hustle Beach is the third album from Baby Teeth, Chicago's reigning champions of brainy pop. The album is the fruit of the songwriting blog "52 Teeth," which is maintained by bandleader Abraham Levitan and on which he posted a new song each week for one year. Inspired by Philip Roth's American Pastoral, he began writing about the dark side of suburban utopia, generating the lyrical heart of the albumsongs like "Big Schools," "The Swede," and "Hustle Beach." The production, live and lean, captures the intensity of Baby Teeth's performances. Recommended for fans of Spoon, The Hold Steady, Harry Nilsson, and E.L.O.