Bug Teeth

Landscaping feels like the culmination of everything envisaged for Bug Teeth as a full band. Musically, it was built from the ground up by Alex and Sonny, but inflected with lyrics from PJ that are both deeply personal and dreamily fragmentary. The song details PJ’s experience with grief, and lyrically speaks of how to carve a life around the person that is no longer there.

Recorded in Eastbourne - 200 miles from home - the recording marked their first collaboration with producer Joel Patchett. It was also the first time recording music outside of their Leeds basement, so there’s a palpable sense of excitement but also nerves, feelings of endings and beginnings, disorientation and discovery. There are glitching drum beats, flutes, and timpanis; it’s a recording teeming with life and exuberance, in contrast to its meaning.