Signature, by Teton

Signature

by Teton

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quasiotter gorgeous mindfuck. all of the elements mesh together so well. this album feels so cool, it makes me feel cool when i listen to it. i think there is weird stuff musically going on that i can't put a finger on, but it's magic. also: the cd packing is amazing! Favorite track: The Jewel of Our Hands.

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Beautiful art book containing otherwise-unreleased artwork in full color by Sam, lyrics, essays, diagrams, a nice poem-thing, sheet music written and hand scored by Liz and photography by Dustin Houston and Kate Shannon. | Printed on natural, heavy-weight paper | Individually hand stitch-bound by Liz and Sam.

Extremely limited edition. Very special. The recommended physical supplement for this album.

8" x 8" /// 20 pages

+++ Silver Compact Disc in Black Variopac Ejector Case with Obi Strip and Gold Foil Sticker

hand packaged up all together in a cute way by Sam and or Liz.

Includes unlimited streaming of Signature via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Silver Compact Disc in Black Variopac Ejector Case with Obi Strip and Gold Foil Sticker

Includes unlimited streaming of Signature via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 7 days

$10 USD or more
Beautiful art book containing otherwise-unreleased artwork in full color by Sam, lyrics, essays, diagrams, a nice poem-thing, sheet music written and hand scored by Liz and photography by Dustin Houston and Kate Shannon. | Printed on natural, heavy-weight paper | Individually hand stitch-bound by Liz and Sam.

Extremely limited edition. Very special. The recommended physical supplement for this album.

8" x 8" /// 20 pages

Extremely limited edition. Very special. The recommended physical supplement for this album.

Includes unlimited streaming of Signature via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 7 days

edition of 45

$34 USD or more
Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more

	1.	Give It a Name 00:25
	2.	Signature 04:24
	3.	The Jewel of Our Hands 04:18
	4.	Trash Purse 04:12
	5.	Move as I Will 03:59
	6.	•{.^.}• 01:33
	7.	Weeping at Their Feet 02:56
	8.	Side That Yields 04:06
	9.	Have You Every Day 02:44

about

Unification is the footing from which Teton casts their act. It is built up from the ground of principle members Elizabeth Lovell and Sam Klickner’s near decade-long-to-date experiment in romance, domestic coordination, sexuality, joint ritualism and sense of humor to then be made into music. The band’s debut full length ‘Signature’ is the yield of two years of attention whose span permitted a thick coagulation of an array of life’s instruction and practice, accidental all of it. The resultant is a new, densely packed contribution to somewhere within the territories of art pop with fervent reachings from all corners to well outside of bounds--- and a short bungee back to launchpoint. The quilt constructed by Lovell to serve as the album’s visual mantelpiece performs aptly. In ‘Signature’ is a concerted heaviness with function to cover and warm, not squash or extinguish. The ensemble of the post-prog synth pop variety (tiered synths, electric guitar, fretless bass, drum kit souped up with triggers) employs as threading which weave to form tight blocks with elliptical integrity to hold squarely for the thrilling ornament provided by Lovell’s vocal lead. Avid enjoyers of the brutal zeuhl of Ruins, the dramatic sheen of Kate Bush, Thin Lizzy’s “guitarmony” blitzes, the ad libbed rhythmic liquidity of Young Thug, and/or the richly lyrical colorations of Prefab Sprout may find anchors of reference to sound-worlds Teton seem to regard as counsel.

A suspected subjugation to the symbol drives much of the lyrical landscape herein. Words dare be containers; they are better seen as running ink. They bind to the world of appearances and distort by virtue of clarifying, leaving only filmy traces. Their air is felt in the unabated alarm of timepieces, clocks, cell phones and metronomes— the indications of time. Distinctions of self drape over us as reification of our roles, our titles, our names, our jobs, our nouns, our pronouns. In food on waste, castles on ruins, payment on theft, and development on expense is the projection of just ghastly impositions. Due to symbols’ insufficiencies as immutable, undecaying containers, and the habituated misuses of them as such, transmissions are so often aborted projectiles toward indigestive receivers. This is the mirror-walled horror-show known as The Circle of The Confusion of Tongues, where buildings pile up and invert the inhabitants’ ascension into furrowing, where our deemed nutrifaction clogs arteries.

credits

released December 15, 2020

Windchimes Recorded at 28 Degrees F
Bullfrogs Recorded in San Juan Island
Drums and Bass Recorded at Full Bonk by Andrew Jones
Keys, Guitars and Flute Recorded at Mercy Clinic Textile Worship Cabal GHQ by Sam Klickner
Vocals Recorded at The Map Room by David Allen
Vocals for Track 9 "Have You Every Day" Recorded at Full Bonk by Andrew Jones

Mixed and Produced by Andrew Jones
Mastered by Alex Colombo

Elizabeth Lovell - Voice, Keyboards, Podcast, Quilt
Sam Klickner - Percussion, E-drums, Voice, iMac, Vol.
Andrew Jones - Bass, MPH, BPM, Café
Ryan Miller - Guitar, Oven Scrape

Contributions by:
Mike Gamble - Midi Guitar on Track 6 "•{.^.}•"
Maxx Katz - Flute on Track 6 "•{.^.}•"
Dercules - Passport

Photography by Dustin Houston and Kate Shannon
"Signature" Typeface by Zachary
Art and Design by Sam Klickner
"Signature" Quilt by Elizabeth Lovell

Endless Thanks to Jef H, Dustin H, Derek B, Annie P, Mike G, Maxx K, Alex S, Alex C, Andrew A, Pat K, Gemmy P.C, Table M.C

Published by Mercy Clinic

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Signature

Dec 2020
SIGNATURE REMIX

Feb 2021
Dump

Dec 2019
Candy Spelling

Oct 2016

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