Tele Novella – Poet's Tooth (CD)
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Austin's Tele Novella has always occupied a genuinely singular corner of American music, the kind of act that makes categorization feel beside the point. Poet's Tooth finds Chronis and Ribbons stretching their songwriting into warmer, more expansive sonic territory while keeping the strange, handmade intimacy that has made them a quiet cult favorite since their earliest recordings.
As Tele Novella, Chronis (who performs in the beloved and rekindled indie pop band Voxtrot) and Ribbons (who previously performed in the long-running “Victorian punk” project Agent Ribbons) have spent their past two albums creating "Medieval outsider country" on 2016’s House Of Souls and 2021’s Merlynn Belle. Poet’s Tooth – the band’s second album for Kill Rock Stars – steers the duo’s whimsical western-tinted quality into fascinating new directions: cinematic-pop balladry on the autoharp-tinged opener “Young & Free,” gently clip-clopping Americana-folk on “Hard-Hearted Way,” and bass-driven funk on the wry “Eggs In One Basket.” With help from producer Danny Reisch, Tele Novella have crafted their most genre-rich, poetic, and sincere album yet.
Tracklist
UPC: 759656070522
Label: Kill Rock Stars
Release Date: 10.6.23
Format: CD