"In bonafide good times I still get stuck / sticking like honey this time / some people get beautiful and some get tough / what a waste of the weekend to hide..."
"Hometown" by Portland, Oregon's Babytooth is (for me) a free spirited injection of bohemian folk soul encapsulated in an amalgam of 70's garden rock and 90's College indie rock. At the core is singer songwriter Isabel Zacharias and her sonic poetry feels refreshing, even therapeutic. She rounds out Babytooth with friends, collaborators in crime, enhancing the tracks (from the beginning) with Annie Fifer's (Yellow Room) guitar leads and currently including Hugh Jepson (Soft Cheese) slapping the drums and Benson Chong (Honeydiu) playing bass.
Embedded within this track, you can feel the sense and dread of community, of youthful campfire sing-a-longs and backyard house parties. A feeling of belonging or wanting to instead of detachment and while I feel (narratively speaking) an artistic amalgam of artists like Aimee Mann, Lucinda Williams and Sheryl Crow, in terms of depth of songwriting, in terms of the romantic edges of life and loss, it is only a glimpse for me.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1qOs0GjofPiGwLs3hOFR4M
https://budtapes.bandcamp.com/album/thataway
https://www.instagram.com/bb__tt__hh/
https://babytooth.band/
https://www.facebook.com/babytoothband/
Babytooth is the full band project of Portland, OR-based singer/songwriter Isabel Zacharias. A rotating cast of friends has brought the songs to life, but Annie Fifer's (Yellow Room) earworm guitar leads have been a constant, with the current lineup also including Hugh Jepson (Soft Cheese) behind the drums and Benson Chong (Honeydiu) playing bass.
Elaborating on Pacific Northwest indie of the '90s, the songs skate between noisy melodic rock & twinkly folk experiments. A first EP, Thataway, arrived in 2020 via cassette-only label Bud Tapes — and its success helped establish the imprint as a go-to curator of the Portland DIY scene. With a debut full-length set for release in August 2023 via Bud and like-minded tape label Antiquated Future, Zacharias continues to write intimate song portraits of distraction and awareness, aging and loss, comic relief, the everyday, and how memories inform identity.
Babytooth, Portland, Oregon, singer songwriter Isabel Zacharias, alt rock, indie rock, garden rock, folk rock, folk indie, "Hometown",
Lucky for me (and you) Babytooth's self-titled debut full-length drops onAugust 18th, 2023 via Antiquated Future Records and Bud Tapes.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1qOs0GjofPiGwLs3hOFR4M
https://budtapes.bandcamp.com/album/thataway
https://www.instagram.com/bb__tt__hh/
https://babytooth.band/
https://www.facebook.com/babytoothband/
Babytooth is the full band project of Portland, OR-based singer/songwriter Isabel Zacharias. A rotating cast of friends has brought the songs to life, but Annie Fifer's (Yellow Room) earworm guitar leads have been a constant, with the current lineup also including Hugh Jepson (Soft Cheese) behind the drums and Benson Chong (Honeydiu) playing bass.
Elaborating on Pacific Northwest indie of the '90s, the songs skate between noisy melodic rock & twinkly folk experiments. A first EP, Thataway, arrived in 2020 via cassette-only label Bud Tapes — and its success helped establish the imprint as a go-to curator of the Portland DIY scene. With a debut full-length set for release in August 2023 via Bud and like-minded tape label Antiquated Future, Zacharias continues to write intimate song portraits of distraction and awareness, aging and loss, comic relief, the everyday, and how memories inform identity.
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