Pianos Become The Teeth

Turn the lights off when Im still in the room / Im only bright next to you, out of sight. Out Of Sight

The opening couplet on Pianos Become The Teeth's fifth full-length album Drift is as captivating as it is haunting, a statement which can also be said of the album as a whole. For me, this record feels like one long night, frontman Kyle Durfey explains. Out Of Sight'' parallels that feeling musically via layered vocals, atmospheric instrumentation and percussion accents that sound like a crackling fire before the song carefully crescendos into a hypnotic blend of distorted bass and melodic guitar line that's strangely satisfying and completely unexpected. But Pianos Become The Teeth have never been the type of act to follow conventions. The Baltimore, D.C., five-piecewhich also features guitarists Mike York and Chad McDonald, bassist Zac Sewell and drummer David Haikoriginally started out as a screamo band and gained an enthusiastic fanbase via 2009's Old Pride and 2011's The Lack Long After. However shortly afterward Durfey stopped screaming and the band transitioned into a post-rock act who expanded their sound on 2014's Keep You and 2018's Wait For Love. Drift is the culmination of the band's penchant for redefining and transcending their sound and it does so in a way that stays true to their artistic and aesthetic vision.