CAKE BAKE BETTY - SONGS ABOUT TEETH [Infinity Cat]

A CD Baby best new album pick. Coming off her triumphant show at Rockwood Music Hall, one of this years most talked about CMJ performers brings you this amazing collection of songs about teeth, cannibalism, robots, the sea, ships, pirates, syphilis, crayons, divorce, monsters, and you... it's our favorite obsession. Recently supported be Your Own Pet on their European tour. US tour with Jeff this summer!

British mag SUPERSWEET says: You'd have to get up pretty early in the morning to find an album of more alluring songs based around unusual themes than "Songs About Teeth". The musical vehicle of multi-instrumental New Jersey songwriter Lindsay Powell, Cake Bake Betty's album is an exercise in both the beautiful and the bizarre. Inspired predominantly by old mariner songs, folk classics and blues standards amongst many other influences, the tracks have an off-kilter appeal and energy which most artists would struggle to replicate.
As promised in the title, the record does indeed contain songs about teeth, as well as tackling issues of cannibalism, robots and pirates and comes from the lyrical left-field in a unique and sometimes disturbing way. The songs themselves are fragile, ethereal piano-led ballads and the record also utilises mournful strings and electronic flourishes, transporting the listener to strange new worlds with a lullaby-esque appeal.
From start to finish, the album takes the listener on a journey through bleak and unnerving songs infused with Lindsay's powerful, aching vocals through to more upbeat, electronic surrealist pop ("Backbones") and modern sea shanty's ("Song of the Sea") before bringing the listener back to more traditional lovelorn offerings such as "Doves". Special mention might be made of eight-minute epic "The Charge (Knockturnul)" This song is a story in itself, progressing from a pacy piano assault to the achingly delicate post-rock inspired midsection, through to its final climax of strings, plaintiff vocals and martial style drumming.
Cake Bake Betty may be inviting us to visit unusual new realms, but it is a trip well worth taking.

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