“Teeth Like God's Shoeshine” by Modest Mouse

"Teeth Like God's Shoeshine" belongs to The Lonesome Crowded West, the second Modest Mouse album, which Up Records released in November 1997. Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green and Eric Judy share the writing credit, Calvin Johnson produced it, and Brock and engineer Scott Swayze sit alongside him as co-producers.

The record around it is a restless, scrappy thing, lurching between pounding, dark-hearted thrashers and hushed acoustic brooding, with traces of grunge and hip-hop in the mix and an aesthetic some tagged as white trash; the two towers on its cover are Seattle's Westin. Critics liked it, and it kept turning up on lists of the '90s' best albums. In 2014 Brock reissued it on his own Glacial Pace label.

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