Back in some former musical life, brothers Brian and Chris McKenna created dark, minimal electronic pop as Video Teeth, mapping out a rather barren landscape of ’80s influences and gitchy post-punk. It was a skin created in the bedroom, crafted on computers and synths and scratching just at the surface of the McKennas vision.
Now, that skin is shed in favor of new project Teenender. On the duo’s self-titled EP released online earlier this week, Teenender sharpen the synth-pop knives and raise the production value to impressive levels. The EP reaches a startling peak with standout single “Bad Angel,” a midnight ride of dark alt-pop that sounds as if Party Bois had a younger goth brother raised on Depeche Mode and Camouflage, with bits of A Place To Bury Strangers and Veil Veil Vanish mixed in to give it a more modern and sinister edge.
Listen to, and download, “Bad Angel” below via the Teenender Bandcamp link, and be sure to slowly canvass the rest of the EP, which includes a Bearstronaut remix of the also-single-worthy pop bubbler “Nite Trap.”
We’re feeling the fuck out of this one.
