Grapetooth is a
Chicago
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new wave-influenced duo. The project, which consists of Clay Frankel and Chris Bailoni, was started in 2015.
Career
Twin Peaks
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member Clay Frankel and Chris Bailoni, also known as Chicago producer Home-sick, met in 2012 through mutual friends. Three years later in 2015, the two bonded over similar musical tastes while out a bar and made a resolution to create music together. Frankel and Bailoni stumbled into the group’s sound after writing their first single, “Trouble.” Calling the project Grapetooth as a reference to Frankel’s wine consumption, the duo began playing and gathering attention at wild-mannered shows in Chicago. Grapetooth shared their second single, “Violent” in May 2018 and they released their debut album "Grapetooth" on November 9, 2018 on
Polyvinyl Records
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. On February 12, 2020 Grapetooth, alongside fellow Chicago-based Musician
Lala Lala
Lala Lala is the indie rock project of Chicago-based songwriter Lillie West (guitar, vocals).
Biography
Lillie West was raised in London and moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was a teenager. She would soon relocate to Chicago to atte ...
, released a pair of singles, "Fantasy Movie" b/w "Valentine", on Hardly Art Records.
Musical style
Noisey
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describes their single “Violent” as an earworm where “synths bubble over a pulsing drum machine and a bouncy Cure-like guitar riff.”
Frankel and Bailoni cite ‘80s Japanese new wave,
Arthur Russell, and
Spacemen 3
Spacemen 3 were an English neo-psychedelia space rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire, by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce, known respectively under their pseudonyms Sonic Boom and J Spaceman. Their music is known for its brand of " ...
as major influences.
Discography
;Albums
* ''Grapetooth'' (2018)
;Singles
* "Trouble" (2017)
* "Violent" (2018)
* "Infinite Source" (2022)
* "Shining" (2022)
References
External links
Grapetooth
Musical groups from Chicago
Indie rock musical groups from Illinois
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