Landscaping

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Landscaping feels like the culmination of everything envisaged for Bug Teeth as a full band. Musically, it was built from the ground up by Alex and Sonny, but inflected with lyrics from PJ that are both deeply personal and dreamily fragmentary. The song details PJ’s experience with grief, and lyrically speaks of how to carve a life around the person that is no longer there.

Recorded in Eastbourne - 200 miles from home - the recording marked their first collaboration with producer Joel Patchett. It was also the first time recording music outside of their Leeds basement, so there’s a palpable sense of excitement but also nerves, feelings of endings and beginnings, disorientation and discovery. There are glitching drum beats, flutes, and timpanis; it’s a recording teeming with life and exuberance, in contrast to its meaning.

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Unspeakable time
Backs folded together
Separate sides

Doors closing to meet us
And we try
We found ourselves through pictures

All at once
It happened
It came about
A flash in the pan

And all at once
We cut it out
Tried to live around
What happened

Landscaping
Take the background
Womb shadowed
From her to mine
In this life
She’s my background
I’d cut her out
But she’s mine

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released March 20, 2024
Written and Arranged by Bug Teeth.
Recorded and Engineered in 2023 by Joel Anthony Patchett and Adam Bentham at Echo Zoo Studios.
Mixed and Mastered by Joel Anthony Patchett.
Design by Han Woollam.

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