A pumping bass that has a post punk edge, a weird clicking sound and a mumbling vocal: three things you wouldn’t necessarily expect to hear together, and three things that pretty much give no clue as to where teethin’s current single ‘Throwin Shapes’ is headed. It could be a punky banger; it could be a slab of post rock fury; it could be an abrasive piece of alternative dance…

As it turns out, the next couple of minutes manages to be all three. teethin’s arrival on the alternative scene is anything but restrained, and anything but subtle.

Driven by furious drum loops that borrow from ‘Fat of The Land’ era Prodigy and alt-metal band Collisions, the single quickly hits upon an absolutely relentless rhythm, and that’s actually made more intense by being offset by a growling vocal that rarely sounds more audible than the previous mumble. Raising to a full shout during the chorus, the band suggest they have a love of brutal hardcore. What these mult-national noise-makers don’t seem to love is an easy melody, but that eventually becomes this track’s ultimate selling point, in a world where supposedly alternative music often feels like a guitar driven throwback, teethin’s plundering of the past and present results in something that does genuinely still feel alternative here – a boundary busting, emotionally charged three minute banger that promises a great deal from their yet to be released debut EP.

teethin will release that debut EP, ‘Greed Between The Lines’, via Silent Kid Records on October 3rd 2025. In the meantime, you can take a listen to the excellent ‘Throwin Shapes’ below.