There’s no doubt about it – Gum Takes Tooth are a pair of nutters.
Like Battles locked in an audio wrangle with Earth, Jussi Brightmore and Thomas Fuglesang's music oscillates wildly around the beaty outer perimeters of rocky, knotty electronica.
Live, the Londoners are a force of nature, building mazes over mazes of sound that crash against your bones to render you incapable of any rational thought for at least a week.
Their new record Mirrors Fold judders with the sub-bass of pitched-down synths and stuttering ray guns, and is likely to induce a three-dimensional epileptic meltdown in the more delicate listener.
We caught up with the ravey noiseniks to learn their views on teleportation, white noise and custard…
We have been making music since...
Sometime around 2007, in another band.
Our music is...
...jumping through wormholes; forwards, backwards, sideways.
You'll like us if you listen to...
...the sound between your ears, the sound outside when you stop talking, your body when a big ass sound-system hits you square in the gut.
Our favourite venue is...
...anywhere where the bass bins can make your nostrils hum and massage your stomach into custard, and where anyone can do anything they want, can really get their rocks off.
Music is important because...
...it's an emotional language capable of articulating the full breadth of culture, celebrating it, critiquing it, endlessly hybridising it, its dreams, its nightmares, and the best thing about it is that you can do all this by just kicking out the jams without considering any of this one iota. It just happens whether anyone realises it or not.
Our biggest inspiration is...
...man, too many to list. Can't choose just one, three or ten. We just keep our ears and eyes open and let it flood in. The sheer white noise of it all can be hard to take sometimes though.
Our dream collaboration would be...
...a Gamelan orchestra.
To try us out, listen to our song...
...White Fear.
If we weren't making music we'd be...
...able to concentrate on that thing most other people spend their time focusing on - life.
In 10 years’ time we want to be...
...the first band to manifest the teleportation of a whole audience through frequency manipulation of their quantum-level particles.
Gum Takes Tooth’s Mirrors Fold was released on 6 October through Tigertrap Records.
http://www.gumtakestooth.com/
Like Battles locked in an audio wrangle with Earth, Jussi Brightmore and Thomas Fuglesang's music oscillates wildly around the beaty outer perimeters of rocky, knotty electronica.
Live, the Londoners are a force of nature, building mazes over mazes of sound that crash against your bones to render you incapable of any rational thought for at least a week.
Their new record Mirrors Fold judders with the sub-bass of pitched-down synths and stuttering ray guns, and is likely to induce a three-dimensional epileptic meltdown in the more delicate listener.
We caught up with the ravey noiseniks to learn their views on teleportation, white noise and custard…
We have been making music since...
Sometime around 2007, in another band.
Our music is...
...jumping through wormholes; forwards, backwards, sideways.
You'll like us if you listen to...
...the sound between your ears, the sound outside when you stop talking, your body when a big ass sound-system hits you square in the gut.
Our favourite venue is...
...anywhere where the bass bins can make your nostrils hum and massage your stomach into custard, and where anyone can do anything they want, can really get their rocks off.
Music is important because...
...it's an emotional language capable of articulating the full breadth of culture, celebrating it, critiquing it, endlessly hybridising it, its dreams, its nightmares, and the best thing about it is that you can do all this by just kicking out the jams without considering any of this one iota. It just happens whether anyone realises it or not.
Our biggest inspiration is...
...man, too many to list. Can't choose just one, three or ten. We just keep our ears and eyes open and let it flood in. The sheer white noise of it all can be hard to take sometimes though.
Our dream collaboration would be...
...a Gamelan orchestra.
To try us out, listen to our song...
...White Fear.
If we weren't making music we'd be...
...able to concentrate on that thing most other people spend their time focusing on - life.
In 10 years’ time we want to be...
...the first band to manifest the teleportation of a whole audience through frequency manipulation of their quantum-level particles.
Gum Takes Tooth’s Mirrors Fold was released on 6 October through Tigertrap Records.
http://www.gumtakestooth.com/
