Teiger is the eponymous debut album by London based trio Teiger who are Talie Rose Eigeland, Philip Eldridge-Smith and Jon Steele, the album was produced by Teiger and Mike Bew at Foel studios with David Castillo mixing and mastering it.
The album opens with The Crawl that has a very slow carefully plucked intro as this slowly builds to open-up the world Teiger are creating sonically.
Sahara has arabesque like electro acoustic guitar figures that help accentuate Talie's vocals, bewitching as she tells you about that pain that keeps repeating, like the drum pattern drawing you together again. Like an odd amalgam of middle European off kilter rock, but with Arabic rhythms, it feels counter intuitive, yet works the more this builds, the more the pains of being apart feel more real.
Come And Find Me somewhere on the other side of that bassline as Philip's fingers go up and down the frets once more, sparingly played, the reverb brushed vocals are likely to entice you to go and find her as she asks you too. Jon's drumming is at times steady as you like, but with carefully placed flourishes.
Slow Burning is a gradual goth almost prog anthem to life in the slow lane, the episodic nature of the way this builds and falls has echoes of Garmana, but once it breaks down towards the end it's far more All About Eve.
Splinter slowly drives along, while shifting gear a few times the central tale in the lyrics tempt you to listen multiple times to get everything being said or going on.
Vendetta is slow picked guitar, minimalist drumming for this Vendetta to unfold with little chance it will be settled before the end of the song.
Hydra is the most insistent sounding song on the album, the way the bass and drums intertwine may hark back to Led Zeppelin, but the guitar and vocals take this someplace totally different like they are seeking out new sonic horizons possibly influenced by Anathema, this is exploratory as Talie's vocals remind me a bit of Grace Solero.
The Law Of Diminishing Returns asks why you keep doing the same thing and expect to get a different result as the drumming gets a little bit tribal, the vocals have an almost fairy tale delivery to them. Before this gets a touch episodic like an old school story unfolding musically as well as lyrically.
Sunrise begins with a piano line conjuring up the first rays of dawn, before a funky guitar and bassline come shuffling in to celebrate another dawn, the coming of a new day and the fact you're still breathing.
The Thinnest Wall is obviously the line between love and hate, this slowly evolves, exploring the pain, the hurt that was the other side of the love you shared, it's all gone wrong, can it be fixed, or would you even want to try to fix this hurt.
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