Grapetooth

Twin Peaks member Clay Frankel and Chris Bailoni, also known as Chicago producer Home-sick, met in 2012 through mutual friends. Three years later in 2015, the two bonded over similar musical tastes while out a bar and made a resolution to create music together. Frankel and Bailoni stumbled into the group’s sound after writing their first single, “Trouble.” {{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Samantha |title=GRAPETOOTH: "TROUBLE" |url=https://www.meltedmagazine.com/blog/2017/10/26/grapetooth-trouble |website=Melted Magazine |date=26 October 2017 |accessdate=2 August 2018}} Calling the project Grapetooth as a reference to Frankel’s wine consumption, the duo began playing and gathering attention at wild-mannered shows in Chicago. Grapetooth shared their second single, “Violent” in May 2018{{cite web |last1=Haas |first1=Anna |title=Are You "Violent"? Grapetooth Release New Track |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/05/grapetooth-releases-new-track-violent.html |website=Paste |publisher=Paste Media Group |accessdate=2 August 2018}} and they released their debut album "Grapetooth" on November 9, 2018 on Polyvinyl Records.{{cite web |title=Grapetooth Joins PV Fam |url=https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/news/2224 |website=Polyvinyl Records |accessdate=2 August 2018}} On February 12, 2020 Grapetooth, alongside fellow Chicago-based Musician Lala Lala, released a pair of singles, "Fantasy Movie" b/w "Valentine", on Hardly Art Records.{{cite web |title=Lala Lala - Fantasy Movie |url=https://www.hardlyart.com/releases/lala_lala/fantasy_movie |website=Hardly Art |accessdate=29 October 2020 |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101050410/https://www.hardlyart.com/releases/lala_lala/fantasy_movie |url-status=dead }}

Noisey describes their single “Violent” as an earworm where “synths bubble over a pulsing drum machine and a bouncy Cure-like guitar riff.”{{cite web |last1=Terry |first1=Josh |title=Grapetooth Dole Out New Wave Bliss on "Violent" |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/grapetooth-dole-out-new-wave-bliss-on-violent/ |website=Noisey |date=24 May 2018 |publisher=Vice |access-date=2 August 2018}} Frankel and Bailoni cite ‘80s Japanese new wave, Arthur Russell, and Spacemen 3 as major influences.

;Albums

• Grapetooth (2018)

;Singles

• "Trouble" (2017)
• "Violent" (2018)
• "Infinite Source" (2022)
• "Shining" (2022)

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• [https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/artist/grapetooth/ Grapetooth]

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Category:Musical groups from Chicago

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