Tele Novella
Poet's Tooth

I won’t tell you today, either, how I went from sticker albums to rock albums, in ten mousse. But I bring you up and lay it out, you can say “pull” or clay pigeon shooters, the Tele Novella explained in ten points. The soap opera I vaguely remember is Andrea Celeste and, better yet, a photo-novel from Blitz with the Campus and green apple as a shampoo.

Ten Points/One Thousand

On Poet’s Tooth by Tele Novella

• One. There's immediately good news. The album in question has been completely ignored by Ondarock.

• Two: that a band with such a silly name could appeal to me was instead in the air, naturally,
  from Lockhart, Austin, Texas. TN is a duo, formed by Natalie Ribbons (vocals) and Jason Chronis (guitars and keyboards), born as a quartet in 2013. Natalie there is the owner of Magic Mirror, a vintage clothing store. In the videos, she showcases skirts without slits or leg openings and Botticelli-like shells to contain her breasts. Nothing trivial, obviously used to play the part of the siren (“Hard-Hearted Way”).

• Three: Natalie doesn’t have a bitter mouth.

• In the meantime (#4) Indie rock: Indie Pop, Alt Country, Medieval Folk, Neo-Psychedelia, Psych Pop, Country-Psych, being careful to do it with heart.

• [3 bis] The exuberant, submissive, yet versatile Natalie Ribbon has a friendly and mature vocal tone. She increases sighs and moans, where, if she wanted, she could dress her soul in velvety hendecasyllables. Sweet-talking, pink is her flower. Old rose. Pink velvet for her favorite themes: youth, nostalgia, beginnings and falls, surpassing oneself to be ever more over time that flows, normal weight. Certainly skilled in calculating her body mass index in Kg/m2. In each of her songs, she starts as a princess and finds herself, supercalifragilisticexpialidociously, a frog. So theatrical, partly daring, crafted artfully, but not artificial.

• 5) The music has its own rosy mellowness. Aged gracefully. Fruity with autoharp, nylon string guitars, Garden Weasel aka the well-known “Garden Weasel,” samples and field recordings, vintage atmospheres, old organs and keyboards, a piano, clip-clopping percussion, slide guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, bass (overdrive), and the “gain” and “volume” controls of the amplifier. Like a still life with Cezanne’s apples, carried under the arm.

• Six be what you are. Intriguing. The album is produced for Kill Rock Stars by the band’s additional sound engineer and drummer, Danny Reisch.

• Seven. Who do Jason and Natalie love? They love Emily Dickinson (in every stanza) and Peter Grudzien (a fan of “Unicorn” more beautiful than the original).

• Motto) What do Texas and South Tyrol have in common? The practice of Yodel. Thanks to Natalie, who in “Broomhorse” and "Vampire Cowgirl" somewhat simulates it, somewhat imitates it, somewhat interprets it.

• (#9) The last song is “Funeral,” where she sings:

No, you can’t beat me
At my game /…/

Here comes the train
The tracks make you feel safe because you know where they go
But you can’t stop the whistle from blowing
And if you stay, it will hurt even more

You’ll always be left behind /…/

Alone, with everything you wished for in one last kiss /…/

It’s still a funeral /…/
But at least it's a sign, no longer blaming us,
That remains to tell us: we tried.

• 10. 10 tracks in total, just 35 minutes. This is the time of Poet's Tooth. Thus, here is one of the four best albums of 2023.

The final question is, not so much why there is no longer space for soap operas on Debaser, the Tele Novella of “Poet’s Tooth” are absolutely fantastic, as they were in the 2014 EP Cosmic Dial Tone, but why there is still no specific space for the galloping dogs. After the Degame, many have to “walk” the dog.