Release
date: June 17th 2016. Label: Devils Child Records. Format:
CD/DD/Vinyl
Teacher
– S/T – Tracklisting
1.
Stuck 2 My Dreamz
2.
Smile, You're In Hell
3.
Heavy Metal Parking Lot 1979
4.
Triangle Of Iron
5.
Mean As Hell
6.
Peripatetic Blues
7.
Wildcard Jambalaya
8.
Don't Die On Me Now
9.
Panopticon
10.
Home For The Summer
Band
Members:
Solomon
Arye Rosenschein - guitars, vocals
Jonathan
Ethan Mercer - drums, guitars, vocals
Review:
Seattle's
Teacher comes on as a much needed breath of fresh air. Taking 70's
heavy rock, psychedelica and razor sharp riffs, they play with a
gleam in their eyes, and subsequently created an outstanding album in
the process. This combination alone puts them ahead of a huge number
of bands. If you then add their technical prowess and song-writing
skills with a carefree attitude, you simply can't go wrong. And
Teacher aren't doing anything wrong at all.
'Stuck
2 My Dreamz' is an amalgamation of tripped out rifforama stoner
fronted by Chris Goss. A short fantastic opener, to say the least. On
point and sinister, 'Smile, You're In Hell' has a garage feel to it
while grooving sweetly. Don't know if it's a spoof on the legendary
underground movie with almost the same name, regardless 'Heavy Metal
Parking Lot 1979' rocks and rolls so well. That riff, man! 'Triangle
Of Iron' weaves in and out between soft seductive tones only to
switch to badassery with the flick of a switch. Towards the end of
the song, Teacher lets their hair down and goes full tilt. Metal,
stoner and punk meets in 'Mean As Hell'. This it sounds like the
bastard child of Chris Goss and Sean Garrison(Kinghorse) belts out
the lyrics. And yes, you better get out of their way.
Low
down and dirty, 'Peripatetic Blues' snakes and slithers around you
until it strikes like a gigantic mean rattlesnake. Trippy and out
there instrumental 'Wildcard Jambalaya' leads into the groovy and
Zeppelinesque 'Don't Die On Me Now'. There’s so much swagger,
rattle and roll to last a lifetime. Psychedelic and frantic at the
same time, ‘Panopticon’ is a delicious headfuck in the grand mal
size. Starting off in almost indie style, closer ‘Home For The
Summer’ hangs on to that vibe but add some schizo stuff unleashing
a weird yet captivating beast.
Teacher’s
debut album is a wonderful release of the kind that grabs you from
the word go and never releases it’s grip on you. And I love that!
In a time when it is very hard for bands to stand out, these guys
comes along and simply turns everything on the head which just such
ease, it leaves me thinking “where the hell have this band been
until now?”. More of this please…and thank you Teacher for
recording this amazing wax.
Words
by Håkan Nyman
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