Teethe's New Album 'Magic Of The Sale' Launches in Style

Teethe, the rising Southern slowcore band from Texas, release their anticipated new album Magic Of The Sale, today via Winspear. On Magic Of The Sale, Teethe unveil their sad and beautiful world, where the Texas band’s four distinct songwriters, singers, and artists ask a series of interlocked questions about what it means to build a life in a time of shared collapse. Magic Of The Sale is a soft but steely record about the worst quandaries we can encounter, from being trapped by an existence we didn’t entirely create to the hell that other people can be, as exemplified by the album’s singles “Magic Of The Sale,” “Holy Water,” “Hate Goodbyes,” “Push You Forever,” and “Iron Wine,” released today alongside a visualizer by Alan “Rickman” Official.

Magic Of The Sale is an expansive next step for the band, one that folds new collaborators into the mix. Still, Teethe took special care to preserve the part of the process that made their debut so special, now with expanded toolkits. On Magic Of The Sale, they’ve boosted their gear and home studios and dug into the craft of composition and production. Without an outsider producer or engineer, the band’s Boone Patrello spent four months mixing the record–taking the patchwork of tracks from each member and their collaborators and funneling several visions into one complete picture. From a long-overlooked pocket of Texas’ musical wealth, Teethe returns with a deeply layered and collaborative work that makes the weight of the world feel a little lighter to lug.

Teethe is hitting the road in support of Magic Of The Sale across North America, the UK and Europe this fall and winter on tours that include dates with feeble little horse, Momma, Aunt Katrina, Winter, and more. All dates below.

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Tour Dates:

09/05 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar

09/06 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon

09/07 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop

09/09 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall

09/10 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza

09/12 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Basement

09/13 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court

09/14 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall

09/27 – New York, NY @ Knockdown Center

10/16 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall

10/17 – Austin, TX @ 29th Street Ballroom

10/18 – Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves

10/31 – Brussels, BE @ Les Nuits Botanique

11/01 – Amsterdam, NL @ London Calling

11/03 – Cologne, DE @ MTC

11/05 – Paris, FR @ Pitchfork Music Festival

11/08 – London, UK @ Pitchfork Music Festival

11/10 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla

11/11 – London, UK @ Moth Club

11/12 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club

11/14 – Glasgow, UK @ Nice ‘n’ Sleazy

11/15 – Manchester, UK @ YES

12/01 – Nashville, TN @ drkmttr

12/02 – Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5

12/03 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings

12/04 – Washington, DC @ DC9

12/05 – Philadelphia, PA @ Warehouse on Watts

12/07 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall

12/09 – Toronto, ON @ The Drake

12/10 – Lakewood, OH @ Mahalls

12/11 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups

12/12 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern

12/13 – Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade

12/14 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry

12/16 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Resonant Head

Before there was Teethe, there were other acts and assorted solo projects, all outlets for the four people who would eventually become a single band to write and record songs of their own. In Denton, Texas, a little more than a half-decade ago, the music scene gradually did what any good one should do: connected people with shared interests and sensibilities and encouraged them in turn to push, collectively, a bit further. For Teethe, the dual nexuses were house shows and a mutual enthusiasm for home recording. Four songwriters began to share once-siloed works, rounding out one another’s drafts until they’d steadily but casually built a record—Teethe’s 2020 self-titled debut, a loose and warm 12-track collage of exquisite existential blues and twilit harmonies. Their expectations were modest, but a few early cassette runs slowly led to several sold-out vinyl editions, unlikely name-drops from mega-stars, and several tours across the United States and Europe. Born of living-room jams and DIY spaces, Teethe seemed to stumble toward success on a path they proudly made themselves.

A decade ago, not long after Teethe founder Boone Patrello began his band Dead Sullivan, he met Madeline Dowd during their earliest days at the University of North Texas. She started a band, Crisman, and then joined the group of Grahm Robinson, MAH KEE OH, for a tour alongside Dead Sullivan. After Jordan Garrett joined Dowd’s Crisman in 2019, the four people who would soon become Teethe were effectively interconnected. They played with one another in living rooms after their other bands finished practice and tinkered with reel-to-reel experiments, the stakes as low as any hangout but the connection high. If all those band names and rendezvous points along the way get confusing, just remember: They allowed the then-inchoate Teethe to connect without pressure or expectation, to discover the language they soon captured so elegantly.

Dowd painted the cover of Teethe’s first album, the confused look on the character’s face warped with worry and distorted by drips of pigment that suggest green tears. A similar figure reappears on the cover of Magic Of The Sale, again painted by Dowd. But that grimace of endless exhaustion is gone. Clad in red and caught mid-stride, they look more like a jester, a cool curiosity splashed across their face as they stand in an archway to welcome you to the vast world of uncharted land and sky just in the distance. That is how Teethe feels and sounds throughout Magic Of The Sale—newly confident but still full of questions about the unknown, about what comes next.