With Teeth Sharp as Old Friends

VINYL FORMAT. "On stage with nothing more than an acoustic guitar and an accordion, Maribelle frontman Aaron Ross plays songs that are driven by a clear distrust of optimism while ultimately expounding an overwhelming need for hope. Eerily intimate songs paint a portrait of a personality that is seemingly at odds, simultaneously tense and at ease with itself. Maribelle's latest album, With Teeth Sharp as Old Friends, re-imagines this live aesthetic with a chorus of complex instrumentation, brilliantly played beneath an alternation of layered vocal harmonies and sparse lyrical lament. While Maribelle hints at influence, the sound is clearly a culmination resulting in something that is wholly original, yet oddly familiar; like a faint scent lingering in the air at the start of winter. With Teeth Sharp as Old Friends consists of eleven songs recorded in as many months in an old television studio sound stage and bedrooms and bathrooms across the Midwest. This album establishes Maribelle amongst those artists whose intelligent, insightful music propel us through our troubled, hopeful lives." –Field Days