PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH // Keep You

Pianos Become the Teeth : Keep You
(Epitaph)

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“Kyle Durfey’s voice fashions his lyrics in quieter tones that affect better as soft curses than forced terrors.”

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Sometimes music inspires a need to consume something matching what’s spinning through your ears. Your gut feels low, like it needs to be molded with burning whiskey. Something that scrapes you from the inside to counteract what you’re hearing. Now that the strangulated barks have been omitted, it’s a wonder they aren’t really missed at all—a taut tension comes in the unexpected. Kyle Durfey’s voice fashions his lyrics in quieter tones that affect better as soft curses than forced terrors. It may polarise the 17 people adamant that phrases are better screamed to be heard. Dominance doesn’t shout or demand, dominance is a hand reaching for the small of your back. Dominance whispers. Both make your head spin. Offering Repine and Late Lives as primary singles, the really slow elegance is in April, a warm and growing narrative with a reverbed undertone. Lesions, marked with grungy bounce, infers home might not be a place, but a person. The slow shoegaze-y strum and meandering introduction of Say Nothing challenges empty words: “I thought about the rust, the quote on the ledge about living on that great conscious of life, what we frame and hanged to get by”, is a wretched admittance that no amount of ‘chin up/hang in there’ will alleviate someone’s grief. Upon conclusion, there’s nothing more to give except their everything; a final, beautiful exhaustion.

For fans of: Balance & Composure, Tigers Jaw, Pity Sex.

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Keep You is out now through Epitaph Records.