Baby Teeth (Feeding Fingers album)
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Baby Teeth is the second album from the dark wave/post-punk
band Feeding Fingers
, released on . Because Wound In Wall was mostly composed by lead singer, Justin Curfman, in his mid-teens, he decided that Baby Teeth needed to be shorter, tighter, and more a Feeding Fingers album rather than a Justin Curfman featuring Feeding Fingers album."
The inspiration for the name of the album (and title track's lyrics) came to Justin Curfman in a dream: "[t]hese lyrics were inspired by a dream that I had about a beautiful female singer singing to me on a stage. She finished her song, smiled, and I noticed that she still had her baby teeth, making her gums appear grotesquely enormous. And for some reason this sexually aroused me enormously."
Baby Teeth was released to favorable review. This album reached #16 in the Global Gothic Chart and found a place on the Alternative Top 100 in Portugal. This album was also ranked #4 on the Best of 2009 at Gothic Paradise. Mick Mercer
also named Baby Teeth as one of the tops albums of 2009.
Despite the critical acclaim, Curfman mentions in a 2010 interview that Baby Teeth was "very dense and bleak and just filled with confusion," and plainly refuses to ever repeat anything like it again.
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
band Feeding Fingers
Feeding Fingers
Feeding Fingers is a music trio founded by award-winning multimedia artist, musician, author, animator and artist, Justin Curfman. The band was founded in 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, but has since relocated to Germany.-Formation :...
, released on . Because Wound In Wall was mostly composed by lead singer, Justin Curfman, in his mid-teens, he decided that Baby Teeth needed to be shorter, tighter, and more a Feeding Fingers album rather than a Justin Curfman featuring Feeding Fingers album."
The inspiration for the name of the album (and title track's lyrics) came to Justin Curfman in a dream: "[t]hese lyrics were inspired by a dream that I had about a beautiful female singer singing to me on a stage. She finished her song, smiled, and I noticed that she still had her baby teeth, making her gums appear grotesquely enormous. And for some reason this sexually aroused me enormously."
Baby Teeth was released to favorable review. This album reached #16 in the Global Gothic Chart and found a place on the Alternative Top 100 in Portugal. This album was also ranked #4 on the Best of 2009 at Gothic Paradise. Mick Mercer
Mick Mercer
Mick Mercer is a journalist and author best known for his photos and reviews of the goth, punk, and indie music scenes. He has photographed the bands Tragic Venus and Blondie in the UK and Europe.He publishes a monthly online magazine called "The Mick"....
also named Baby Teeth as one of the tops albums of 2009.
Despite the critical acclaim, Curfman mentions in a 2010 interview that Baby Teeth was "very dense and bleak and just filled with confusion," and plainly refuses to ever repeat anything like it again.
Track listing
- "Neverlight" - 5:11
- "She Hides Disease" - 4:14
- "Baby Teeth" - 4:01
- "Is Heaven All That You Hear?" - 3:57
- "Permission for Sleep" - 2:41
- "This Isn't Enough" - 4:10
- "Plain Faced Afternoons" - 4:02
- "No Movement in Water" - 3:26
- "Your Name in a Stolen Book" - 5:39