Boston Calling Music Festival kicks off a fortnight from tomorrow, and we’re starting to daydream vividly about all the songs we’re gonna hear as we absorb the warm spring air around Harvard Athletic Complex. We have our list of the obvious (“The Rat” by The Walkmen; Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps”), but the list of new must-hear tunes is growing by the day, and now we’ve added “Teeth” by Sorry Mom near the top of the list.
Last week, the New York-based femme queer punk band released the emotive and yearning grunge track, and it’s a noisy ode to family issues as it centers around complicated parent-child relationships. It’s also the final aural appetizer to Sorry Mom’s debut full-length album, babyface, which hits tomorrow (May 12).
“’Teeth’ is a track that builds, featuring a mournful opening half contrasted by an enraged closing half,” the band states. “This song captures the feeling of watching an immature parent grow old but never grow up. It’s about begging someone you have loved and lost to admit that, at the very least, they loved you the most.”
Despite the heavy subject matter, the song should shine as Sorry Mom help kick off the Sunday slate at Boston Calling. Those around New England not attending the festival can get in on the action as well, as Sorry Mom have a handful of regional live shows leading up to the gig: May 21 at Portsmouth’s Press Room in New Hampshire; May 23 at Burlington’s Higher Ground in Vermont; and May 24 at Hamden’s Space Ballroom in Connecticut.
Sink into “Teeth” below.