UNREST – Perfect Teeth (30th Anniversary) – 2LP – Vinyl – Dinked Archive Edition #23 [MAR 28]

2LP – Limited Dinked Archive Edition #23:

Bone-coloured double vinyl * – original LP + bonus Extra Teeth LP
16-page full colour 11 x 11 fanzine curated by Chris Bigg (V23) *
Dinked Archive obi-strip & gold foil sticker *
Limited pressing of 500 *

* = EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition

Bowing out at their creative peak, Perfect Teeth is the wonderful final album by American 90s indie rock greats Unrest. Having just clocked 30 years, 4AD and the band are revisiting it to present the limited, celebratory double album of Perfect Teeth / Extra Teeth; the album remastered plus a bonus disc of EP tracks, singles and rarities.

Borrowing their name from a Henry Cow record, Unrest formed in 1983 at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia (just outside of Washington, D.C.). Beginning as an improv instrumental band, they were soon perfecting genre-hopping eclecticism and issuing recordings (often in cassette form) via frontman Mark Robinson‘s DIY label TeenBeat, as well as on notable labels such as 4AD, Caroline and Matador.

Their last album, Perfect Teeth features the latter year classic line-up of founding members Mark Robinson and Phil Krauth plus bassist Bridget Cross (a one-time member of Velocity Girl) and was recorded in the Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, MN, in early 1993, mere days after Nirvana completed In Utero in the very same space.

For this reissue, the album and bonus tracks have all been remastered most from their original analogue tapes and are sounding as great as ever. Working again with original designer Chris Bigg, hes kept the original album art as is (complete with Robert Mapplethorpes portrait of former Miaow singer/songwriter Cath Carroll on the cover) and has created a brand-new sleeve for Extra Teeth that compliments the original release. This one-time release sees the two albums bundled together with an exclusive 16-page art booklet that includes liner notes by the band.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Angel Ill Walk You Home
2. Cath Carroll
3. So Sick
4. Light Command
5. Food & Drink Synthesizer
6. Soon It Is Going To Rain

Side B
1. Make Out Club
2. Breather X.O.X.O.
3. West Coast Love Affair
4. Six Layer Cake
5. Stylized Ampersand

LP2 – “Extra Teeth”
Side A
1. Vibe Out!
2. So So Sick
3. Goodbye
4. Where Are All Those Puerto Rican Boys?
5. Capezio Bowler

Side B
1. Hey Hey Halifax
2. Folklore
3. Plastic Film
4. Isabel (re-recording)
5. Teenage Suicide (re-recording)
6. Love to Know
7. Nation Writer