Teeth - Care Bear

Teeth’s intense brand of coarse, grinding synth-punk at first seems pretty weird, pretentious and perhaps a bit unsettling. But appreciate the irony in their oh-so-hipster songtitles, abject dissonance, rasping squalls and piercing bleeps, and a lot of fun can be had. Play ‘Care Bear’ loud in your room, lose yourself, and you’ll be forming mini one-strong circle pits battering furniture having assumed the essence of, not a ‘care bear’, but a drug-sozzled grizzly.

The deceptively titled tune - the second single lifted off the London trio’s forthcoming debut full-length ‘Whatever’ - is by far their best work yet. Building and building, lone bleeps morph into complex synth jangles, the bass drum thumps in and clattering cymbals pervade. Then Veronica’s atonal vocals enter with some huge bassy synths in a brash repeated thunder. They leave us with the line ‘lately you’ve been so forgettable,’ an impolite, indirect reminder to the more supine among us to change our ways and party on down. The remixes on the EP reaffirm that this is fantastic music to dance to - most notably via the wallowing ‘DREAMTRAK Dub Remix’.