Milk White White Teeth
Ingrid Won't Smile

4
...according to our Business Lady on 15 July 2010.

The kitty drawing on the sleeve of this album is adorable, with his little ball of string and that...bless. Cats have always been a good way of selling records and i appreciate that Milk White White Teeth are aware of this. I'm guessing these folks are from Leeds (or somewhere near by) as they've had a tune out on one of those Dance To The Radio 4X12 jobbies and this single is produced by Richard Formby (Spectrum) who has a studio here. Though the band hint at a non-conventional way of operating (see press release) the results aren't amazingly 'out there' or beyond convention but they do know how to craft a fine pop song so we'll let them off. The A-side is a lush indie pop extravaganza that kinda lingers in Wild Beasts territory albeit without the daft singing. The B-side works alot better for me. Dynamically it flips from light and funky to grandiose and the arrangement is super tricky. Nice tune.

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What their label says...

Welcome once again to another monthly instalment of the Too Pure Singles Club. July’s instalment comes courtesy of Milk White White Teeth.

· Milk White White Teeth have been coming together over the last couple of years to write songs, exchange ideas and push the boundaries of what it means to be playing music with a group of people in modern times.
Preferring not to be limited by the conventions of being in a band or the song writing process, yet still doffing their hats in that general direction, the band would rather be recognised as a collective, which is possibly the most appropriate description.

· Writing using a wide range of traditional instruments, vintage keys, brass band instrumentation and dense percussion, and doing their best to play with the standard approach to writing a song, the group never really know how things are going to turn out. Some songs end up being three minutes long, others end up being 23 minutes long. At the heart of this process are
band members Jon and Barrie taking up the responsibility of writing the initial ideas and lyrics using everyday phrases and puns or playing on words for inspiration. They then take these ideas and flesh it out with the rest of their cohorts to produce a beautiful mix of sounds, elegant in their construction and completely sublime in their completion.

· So, with tunes in hand, the band hit the studio to record their release for Too Pure Singles Club with Richard Formby, the man behind Wild Beasts’ highly acclaimed ‘Two Dancers’ album.

· Available as a strictly limited edition 7” of 200 copies.