EAT SOMETHING is the debut album by New Hampshire based indie rock band Teratoma released 2017.
I'll be honest... I don't know a whole lot about this band. I found this record from a dude on twitter and from what I could gather the band is currently broken up and has been since 2020 at least... but I still like the album a whole lot.
EAT SOMETHING is such a brilliantly heartwarming record. It opens with this bedroom recording piano tune but quickly pivots into these fantastic noisey pop tunes. TEENAGE WASTELAND is barely 100 seconds but still packs in these noisey guitars, loopy synths and great drums tracks. SOUND ON THE VOICEMAIL is similar with this anarchic sense of humour, the singer repeats "you can run me over if you want to..." in the chorus.
The album deaftly pivots back to piano ballads throughout the album, I think one even has a drum machine track later on too. SUNSHINE is brilliantly charming with this swimmy sort of feeling before SPLIT INTO TWO kind of upends it entirely- it's this punky tune with this crushing instrumental passage sandwiched in the middle. The band has this affinity for intersplicing tracks with organs and synthesisers amongst the heavy bustling guitar tunes which creates a really nice contrast.
HISTORIANS is easily a highlight on the album. The vocalist has this real twang to their voice that both gives the track a really great texture as well as working excellently with this the track's themes of living and dying and losing people.
HZAEL SMILES and LET ME GO form a great 1-2 punch of great pop tunes on the record. They have these great vocal hooks with sticky melodies and fantastic guitar work, with LET ME GO being instantly memorable from even the first listen, it's hook is just awesome.
These songs with the rest of the songs on the album form an enviably strong second half: EVERY CIRCLE ANOTHER has more great vocal melodies. BRUNCH may well be my favourite track on the whole album, it's got this great shoegaze-y guitar tone for it's wordless chorus, and these lyrics about "being the only humans left alive". The track is absolutely exhilerating, it has this underlying melancholy but sounds utterly defiant and accomplishes all of this in just 3 minutes. It leads to the 7 minute closer CORREGIDOR USED TO BE A NICE PLACE which is this fantastically noisey piece of space rock. The band trades out sung vocals for a old timey radio voiceover; which is pretty standard fare for indie rock but it still hits hard on this track. It also has this lo-fi ish hidden track at the end which kind of brings the mood down a little, but the main body of the track is still solid.
Overall this record is unbelievably solid and not to be missed by indie rock fans. Teratoma embody everything a guitar band should be post 2010, and do it brilliantly. M'wah.
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