Review Summary: Eyes brimming with incommunicable suffering.
If there’s one thing Teeth Dreams knows, it’s how to create a truly scary atmosphere. The droning ambience slowly changes from ominous to more sombre and melancholic passages. It feels like its ripped straight from a horror movie, making you feel equally helpless as a victim from a slasher film.
This is a more unique take on harsh noise, molding its tropes to fit within another. While you may be used to the brash, brute force wall of hearing loss, it plays a very subdued role here. It rather serves to heighten the sense of anxiety in a much different way, with it feeling like it was recorded deep within a dank cave.
But the synths are undeniably the biggest factor of making this all work. Like with all droning dark ambient, it's subtle but very effective in what it sets out to do. The lower scale is used to great effect, creating a slightly claustrophobic feel, in a way that still plays into that same sense in harsh noise. It makes the blend of the two opposites very well crafted. When the higher scale is used, it's much more sad than ominous.
And the themes are just about, if not more, bleak than the music. Nothing to Offer, Pain Without Narrative, and Our Happiest Memories, Tainted really forces the sense of desperation onto the listener. No sense of hope, but rather depression and sadness in a never-ending void.
This is a downer of a listen, yet does not overstay its welcome at all. A lot of drone pushes lengths into the extreme, but Teeth Dreams wants to flesh everything out just enough. A half hour of eternal sadness is perfect, and nothing feels half baked.
Recommended Tracks: Eyes Brimming With Incommunicable Suffering, Endlings, Nothing Left to Offer.
