Gum Takes Tooth launch video for Borrowed Lies, taken from the new album, Arrow, out 25 January 2019 on Rocket Recordings

On November 29, 2018

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GUM TAKES TOOTH – WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‘BORROWED LIES’NEW ALBUM, ARROW – OUT 25 JAN 2019 ON ROCKET RECORDINGS

2019 TOUR ANNOUNCED, INCLUDING LONDON ALBUM LAUNCH, WITH SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDING NIK VOID & SEX SWING

“Forge an impressive tumult through linking up their hyper-kinetic drums to home-made technology, resulting in the entirely unhinged and brilliant sounds” – The Quietus
“Electronic and forward looking” – The Wire

Gum Takes Tooth have released the second track from their forthcoming debut album for Rocket Recordings, Arrow. Listen to the three and a half minute rhythmically driven stomp of ‘Borrowed Lies’

The stunning b-side of this single is a rework of ‘Borrowed Lies’ by Italian astral-voyaging collective Lay Llamas. Led by Nicola Giunta, this is an Afrofuzz Cosmic Funk Rework – a travelogue powered by a pan-global fascination with rhythmic hypnosis and an unquenchable experimental mindset. Centring around an addictive percussive groove, the track climaxes with a heavily overdriven fuzzed organ creating a psychedelic mantra in the vein of some of the early 1970s Ethiopiques releases.
Gum Takes Tooth explain: “It concerns the small change victories and comforts our culture portions out to us to placate us and prevent action towards change – the lie of self-empowerment and paranoia is the ‘weapon offered as a gift’. An it ends with a call to arms to look inward to find the weapon to overcome this”.

Gum Takes Tooth (London duo Jussi Brightmore and Tom Fug) have a unique approach: manipulated drum-triggered electronics achieve a dynamic, rhythmically driven and unclassifiable fury that flirts with both speaker-ripping psych-rock pyrotechnics and synapse-shredding acid house – delivered without any of the trappings or clichés of either.
Gum Takes Tooth are mavericks to the last, perpetual square-pegs and a band intent on forging onward to break all or any paradigms before them, creating a collection of kinetic anthems to battle everyday oppression – a work of machine-driven mania with a very human heart on its sleeve.

GUM TAKES TOOTH LIVE

24 Jan – Leicester, The SoundHouse

25 Jan, London, Electrowerkz – with Nik Void, Sex Swing, Michael and Coldnose

1 Feb – Ramsgate, Ramsgate Music Hall

2 Feb – Sheffield, Audacious Space

14 Feb – Dublin, Drop Dead Twice

15 Feb – Cork, The Roundy

16 Feb – Manchester, Star & Garter

5 March – Paris, Badaboum

7 March – Lille, L’Aeronef

THE ARROW (LAUNCH135) TRACKLISTING

Cold Chrome Hearts
The Arrow

No Walls, No Air

Slowly Falling

Apogee

Borrowed Lies

Dream Circle – Cloud Cycle

Fights Physiology

Seizure

A Still Earth

House Built of Fire

RECENT PRAISE FOR GUM TAKES TOOTH

“Rules are there to be broken, yes, but playing by them can produce objects of extreme, intricate beauty” – The Quietus
“This is an hour of the most pleasurable pain, winding up sounding like true one-offs” – London In Stereo
“Heavy as a grunting triceratops” – Echoes And Dust

Listen to ‘The Arrow’