No Pain In Pop

I found this scrawled on a toilet wall

Shot by Arran Ridley

“…by late summer 2010 and album number three, TEETH!!! had shaken off their residual radisms and had evolved into something akin to a post-ironic Blur, their primary colour aesthetic providing a chopping board upon which to more easily dissect a homeland that was now changing its cultural footing every week. It was almost like Albarn and co’s tackling of 40 years of British pop history was something TEETH!!! thought they could pay for in instalments, an ongoing concern downloaded gradually from the Argos catalogue. Emerging from the crashing of the slacker tide with brains and balls intact, the London three’s pursuit of hipster entropy is what perhaps came to most define them, mechanoid predators alert and whirring at the fading edges of a city, gorging on its deterioration. It was as if they wanted London to recede, mile-by-mile, person-by-person, until eventually everyone fell off the vanishing island and was bobbing in the Thames Estuary. The inevitable irony came a few years later of course, when, in a fit of ca…”

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