Premiere: TETE, ‘Good Luck’
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Besides resumés from playing in various art-rock bands around Los Angeles, members of the new quartet TETE say they share a mutual love of metal, reverb, drone, art, wolves and Gummi Worms. Their first song might boast a sonic kinship with all but the Gummi Worms. There’s nothing sweet about “Good Luck,” a sinister 4 1/2 minutes of distorted desperation that immediately makes TETE contenders for your new favorite Goth girls. The band features the talents of Amberlie Bankoff and Kimi Recor (two of the “dark angels” in Black Flamingo, with Recor having gone on to make music as Draemings), Jacquelinne Cingolani (of Darklands, fka Spirit Vine) and Rachel Fannan (Only You). “Good Luck,” out next week, is the first in a string of singles coming out on Manimal Vinyl, all recorded with Joel Jerome (Joel Morales of Dios). Darth Vader’s answer to Warpaint? Something like that.
||| Download: “Good Luck”
||| Live: TETE is currently doing the Monday night residency at the Echo.
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