Grapetooth's distinctive new wave-garage punk was formulated by Twin Peaks' Clay Frankel and Home-Sick's Chris Bailoni, then roommates in their base of Chicago, Illinois. Offering music full of contradictions -- shimmering and ramshackle, playful and earnest, melodically sweet and off-key -- they debuted with the Grapetooth LP in 2018.
Frankel and Bailoni had already been acquainted for a few years when they started writing songs together in 2015 while Frankel was home between tours with Twin Peaks. Having discovered a common affection for the music of Arthur Russell and Yell...