{"title":"Gum Takes Tooth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGum Takes Tooth is an experimental music duo that pushes the boundaries of sound. Their unique blend of electronic and live instrumentation creates a mesmerizing sonic experience. Drawing inspiration from genres such as noise rock, industrial, and psychedelia, their music is characterized by intense rhythms, distorted guitars, and hypnotic synth lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a discography spanning over a decade, Gum Takes Tooth has established themselves as one of the most innovative acts in the underground music scene. Their live performances are known for their energy and intensity, captivating audiences with their raw talent and improvisational skills.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar to artists like Shit And Shine, Hey Colossus, and Wolf Eyes; Gum Takes Tooth's music defies categorization. Each release is a sonic exploration that pushes the boundaries of what is possible in music. Whether you're a fan of noise rock or experimental electronica, Gum Takes Tooth's unique sound will leave you wanting more.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"silent-cenotaph","title":"Silent Cenotaph","description":"\u003cp\u003eGum Takes Tooth, a thunderous rampage of noise tempered with an aptitude for precise rhythms and splintered melody, is a single-headed beast with two bodies: a duo of Thomas Fuglesang on live acoustic drums, physically wired into home grown electronic instruments and bare circuit boards, tweaked, molded and mangled in real-time by Jussi Brightmore. The group decisively bring together their wildly varied influences of out-there noise, metal, primeval rhythms, spacious psyche, pan-ethnic oddities, primal punk, acid house and vintage electronics on their debut album, 'Silent Cenotaph'. Their incredible live set has found them in high demand, with storming festival sets including Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party, Supersonic and British Wildlife Festival in 2010-11, plus supports with luminaries such as Napalm Death, Melt-Banana, Acid Mothers Temple and Otto Von Schirach. Both musicians have enjoyed disparate and involved travails through the musical underground, first playing together in the white noise pop outfit Infants. Brightmore featured in the pioneering I'm Being Good, the improvisational Milche Grand and Blood Stereo with releases on John Olson of Wolf Eyes' American Tapes, Mike Connelly of Wolf Eyes' Gods of Tundra and alongside releases by Thurston Moore on Dylan Nyoukis' Chocolate Monk. Brightmore also co-germinated Chrome Hoof from its conception as a trio to multi-limbed prog juggernaut. Meanwhile Fuglesang, previously of Agoskodo Teliverek, now moonlights with Wart Biter and amongst numerous other projects. 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Mapping out a landscape in which the influences of Coil, Warp Records, The Knife and Lightning Bolt are alchemically transformed into an innovative and pulverising onslaught, \u003ci\u003eArrow\u003c\/i\u003e is also the band’s more intensely personal record yet, dealing as the band’s Jussi Brightmore notes with “Ever more omnipresent and vacuous global tropes cementing economic inequality, nervous amnesia and being as complicit as anyone else in all that. \"Yet there’s plentiful hope for the future, and never more than on the album’ title-track: \u003ci\u003eThe Arrow\u003c\/i\u003e is so called because it flies in a straight line or arc but it never repeats its structure, or goes back on itself” - and thus, a singularly appropriate metaphor for Gum Takes Tooth themselves. Mavericks to the last, perpetual square-pegs and a band intent on forging onward to break all or any paradigms before them, creating a collection of kinetic anthems to battle everyday oppression -a work of machine-driven mania with its very human heart on its sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Limited Double Coloured Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD - Digipack.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50498067464523,"sku":"1053337","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50498067726667,"sku":"1053336","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/43b61d21-a7ea-4f69-986d-ec8992748818_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727738464"},{"product_id":"recovery-position","title":"Recovery Position","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the throes of potential catastrophe, the challenge remains to navigate back from the brink. 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Recalibrating their enmeshing of drums and electronics. they’ve landed on a propulsive binary-driven delivery that stubbornly eschews genre constraints and modes of comparison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fresh approach began when the band began experimenting live, channeling the sparks from  jam-driven spontaneity whilst also moving away from rock dynamics in favour of a more kaleidoscopic meld of ideas. Nonetheless, \u003ci\u003eRecovery Position\u003c\/i\u003e maintains a clear affinity for the pulse-raising effect of the red dB meter or the rattle and rumble of a bass bin under duress. Thus was birthed the mutant quasi-trap protest music of opener ‘Armistice’, the industrial hyperpop aerobics of ‘Small Arms’ and the sci-fi hands-in-the-air rave banger ‘Octavian Eclipse’ alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecovery Position \u003c\/i\u003ewas not without its travails in the making, with the band’s personal challenges and reinventions being somewhat more pronounced than those of their actual music - Jussi and Tom have traversed a full-scale emigration from the UK (in the case of Brightmore) along with battling serious illness, personal revelations and the attendant shockwaves and challenges of the Covid era.. Yet with the assistance of Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse studios in London, the duo have alchemically transcended their circumstances, channeling the personal and political into salvation by way of frequency overload and raw catharsis, a reanimated howl of the human regaining control over the machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrue to form for this always quixotic outfit, what’s emerged from the cocoon of the difficult last four years is their most singular and potent work to date - simultaneously the their most pop-adjacent and their most extreme. 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