Music Review // orchidBB "water the teeth" (Permanent Press)

https://orchiddbb.bandcamp.com/album/water-the-teeth

There are a lot of different sounds coming in right away, but they involve the vocals not saying anything at first- just singing- and then the little scraps and blips like horns and saxophones come through with it just as well.   The first song says "I'm overwhelmed / And I'm under-dressed" and I really like that line but also how this can just feel like beat poetry with free jazz behind it.   The bass line can also carry it, as the levels of it feeling quiet to so loud it hurts your ears are also here.   When looking at the credits though, you can see this is violin, bass and percussion along with the vocals.

The vocals feel very operatic, and as they climb those scales to the highest peaks so does the music follow.   The second track feels like it's filled more with chaos and screams.  I mean this in the nicest way possible, but this second song can feel like a Disney princess who has just been pushed to the edge one too many times.  I imagine those scenes where that Disney princess is singing and the birds fly into the window, landing on her arm and all that.  Only this princess is fed up for whatever reason.  Maybe she's tired of waiting for a man to come and "save" her, who knows, but it does have a similar sense of rage here.

The third song has a text to speech sound of something coming through with the vocals and then the percussion, bass and violin come in.   The violin really seems to be carrying this song, though the percussion also kicks in and can take it to another level.  The way that the Siri type voice comes back and then we go into this almost skramz type of chaos makes me feel somewhat like Siri should get a feature on here.   There is also a lot of laughing, almost into crying now, at the end of this song.  

On the fourth song, "glisten!", it can begin to feel dreamy, like we're just floating out at sea.  There are notes which come through both as vocals and on the violin, the way they work together is amazing, but it just shines like we're melting in the sun.  The bass line takes a bit of a solo with the percussion and it's just flowing.    Though this album can feel as if it is full of chaos, there is also a soothing, calm side within this song especially.   Though this song also has a big, dramatic ending.

We begin the fifth song with these vocals which feel like grasping for air and then we are taken into a perfect example of how well each of these individual musicians can work together as a whole.  It's winding down now, which is nice, sort of hypnotic in the violin even.   The drums begin banging and it's all coming back in at the end of the song.

"...i shouldn't" is the sixth song and it comes in with the violin fluttering.  Somewhat spoken words with laughing.  What I like about these vocals are that eventually, after enough listens, you'll be able to sing along because you know the words but you are likely not going to be able to hit the notes.  

Really high notes, which feel almost like a ukelele, take us into the bass and percussion drive of the last song.   This song is close to isx minutes long and it isn't until almost two minutes into it that the vocals are heard.  I checked the lyrics and don't see it there anywhere, but I'm pretty sure that there is a reference to "Pete the Dragon" in here.  The line "They are coming" is also repeated a lot and I don't see that in the lyrics either, as it turns to "They are here" with a big coming together of the sounds.   As if it could be any other way, this whole album ends with that grand finale.