“Dark and gloomy
The sunlight almost threw me
And my guitar

Dreams depressing
They keep me second guessing
So I sleep high

When I get off
It’s like it never was”

‘More Stars’ is piano-driven and warm, a slow-burning ballad that sounds like a cross between DeYarmond Edison and Kalle Mattson, the joint vocals and introductory percussion feeling like the gradual dawning of some great feeling, a conviction that things are okay or at least can be, with the correct nurturing. The closing track, a beautiful rendition of Gillian Welch’s ‘Everything is Free’, begins slower and sadder but rises into something altogether more fierce, flipping between depression and anger and grim acceptance, the various stages of grief collapsed and jumbled and set ablaze.

“Everything is free now
That’s what they say
Everything I ever done
Gonna give it away

Someone hit the big score
They figured it out
That we’re gonna do it anyway
Even if it doesn’t pay”

If that wasn’t enough, Horse Teeth decided to record a cover of ‘Don’t This Look Like The Dark’ in honour of Jason Molina, a track which happens to fit in with their aesthetic really well. We’re going to take it as a given that WTD readers will already be huge Molina fans (if not may I point you in this direction?), and this cover really does the original justice.

“I thought that I’d live long enough
That the light would come shining through”

The Horseteeth EP is out now, including on cassette via Bad Looks Records. You can grab it and the cover of ‘Don’t This Look Like The Dark’ from the Horse Teeth Bandcamp page.

Artwork by Michael Steiner

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