Unabashedly crashing through musical territories long abandoned -- mostly due to collective guilt and shame -- The Baby Teeth Album dusts off the centimeter-deep sunshine of Hall and Oates, the feathery foppishness of early Elton John and the muttering navel-gaze of late Van Morrison, then throws them all into a white 1984 Lamborghini Countache and drives it off a cliff in a blaze of suicidal glory. While that may sound melodramatic, these songs are pure melodrama -- like the pop kabuki you used to hear wh...   [ read more ]

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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 inte...   [ read more ]

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?Vocalist/keyboardist Pearly Sweets (born Abraham Levitan), drummer Peter Andreadis, and bassist Jim Cooper comprise the theatrically wry Baby Teeth. Hailing from Chicago, the indie rock trio formed in 2003 under an assortment of influences: Elton John, Hall & Oates, prog rock, and D.C. punk. The Baby Teeth Album marked their album debut for Lujo in summer 2005. The For the Heathers EP followed a year later. Baby Teeth also performed at the annual South by Southwest conference later that March, playing al...   [ read more ]

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