Teeth Marks

In Goodman's sophomore release, the hollar collides with the frenetic punk scene of 80's era CBGBs. Being the daughter of a Kentucky sharecropper, she is truly a product of the South which she still loves & calls home despite being a progressive lesbian and she uses her music as a bridge between these disparate cultures. Sonically things range from picked acoustic guitars to a full tilt channeling of X. Either way it is the vibrato in her razor sharp soprano vocals that stand out as they harkin back to Hazel Dickens while being as edgy as something from Iggy Pop. 

FCC: #7 (disk is clean)

RIYL: Patti Smith, Ezra Furman, Courtney Barnett

1 - Teeth Marks - crystal clear old timey high vocals with gentle guitar & haunting synths (med, 3:41)***

2 - All My Love Coming Back To Me - hard driving with her stellar warble and a break that would please MC5 fans (fast, 3:44)***

3 - Heart Swell - Plaintive vocals over acoustic guitar with heavenly backing harmonies (slow, 4:11)***

4 - When You Say It - spare, country-ish, cry in your beer breakup song shows her vocal range (slow, 4:16)*

5 - If You Were Someone I Loved - drums & jangly power chords behind powerful vocals a la Patti Smith's Horses (med, 4:00)***          

6 - You Were Someone I Loved - chilling acapella elegy to a lost child (slow, 3:46)          

7 -Work Until I Die - hard driving punk commentary on capitalism a la X (fast, 6:33) FCC: fuck@3:20 

8 - The Heart of It - energetic vocals against swirling jangly guitars (fast, 3:16)**      

9 - Dead Soldiers - addiction song with gentle start builds to edgey end (slow, 3:54)*

10 - Patron Saint... - warbly vocals over acoustic guitar  - (slow, 3:32)    

11 - Keeper Of The Time - ballad looks at mortality with light guitar and building to an intense crescendo (slow, 5:29)