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Album Review: Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You

Dylan Stewart
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"It’s challenging and aspirational, just not as powerful as they can be."

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Baltimore’s Pianos Become The Teeth have shown, over their career, they have two speeds; the ferocious and the introspective.

Their most impressive moments have fallen under the former (see 2010’s Old Pride), where they channel At The Drive-In and Japandroids. However Keep You takes the other route. They chase the sound of Interpol on tracks like Ripple and Late Lives, and while the album borders on downtrodden, arrangements lending themselves to thoughtful, melodic pieces where neither scream nor distortion dare to tread. It’s challenging and aspirational, just not as powerful as they can be.