Pianos Become the Teeth: reviews, essentials, and emotional wreckage

Pianos Become the Teeth

Musical Group

Forfans of post-hardcore, screamo, and emo; listeners of la dispute, touché amoré, and defeater; readers who crave lyrically intense, emotionally charged music writing.
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The Profile

Pianos Become the Teeth are an American band formed in Baltimore in 2006. Emerging from the screamo/post-hardcore scene, they gained acclaim with Old Pride and The Lack Long After, then shifted toward cleaner vocals and expansive atmospheres on Keep You, followed by Wait For Love and Drift.

Formed in Baltimore in 2006; vocalist Kyle Durfey; associated with La Dispute and Touché Amoré in the same scene; praised for emotive lyrics and a stylistic move from screamo to cleaner, post-rock/emo textures starting with Keep You.

DeBaser’s reviews hail Pianos Become the Teeth for evolving from screamo roots into expansive emo/post-rock textures. Keep You is praised as mature, moving, and flawless, with standouts like Repine and Say Nothing. The Lack Long After is celebrated for visceral lyrics and melodic power. Live, the band balances fragility and catharsis with commanding drumming and impassioned vocals.

Notable Quotes

❝ The new PBTT album amazes and moves, mature and without a single flaw.

❝ It’s the perfect anti-climax to the abyss we had sunk into, from the darkest shadow, they arrive with a 'Keep You' to showcase live, displaying all the fragility their music can explode with.

❝ Pianos Become The Teeth formed in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2006, and are part of the screamo/post-hardcore scene alongside bands like La Dispute, Touché Amoré, and Defeater.