Under the Radar Premiere "Without All Your Teeth You Won't Get Into Heaven"
Premiere: Eldridge Rodriguez Shares New Single “Without All Your Teeth You Can’t Get Into Heaven” *** click for full Article
“Without All Your Teeth You Can’t Get Into Heaven” sees the band working with sweet and melodic jangle pop influences, furnishing the band’s songwriting in celestial bells, organs, and honeyed guitar lines. As Grabowski describes, “Like any good church song we tricked it out with a bell solo and an organ we found and tried to make it all gold and glossy like in actual heaven.” That inviting sheen brightens the band’s darker undercurrents, though the fuzzy guitar tones and Keiber’s crooning vocal performance also offer some alluring contrasting shades to the track.
Similarly, the track’s lyrics offer a tongue-in-cheek reflection on religion and materialism, with Keiber singing how without a perfect set of teeth, beautiful clothes, and an array of contacts, you’ll never get to heaven. Later he sings, “No matter how you try / Not to curse or tell a lie / The truth is when you die / You’ll need your things in heaven / The weight of your soul / Against what you stole.” Keiber simply says of the track, “Not in the history of human existence has a more self-explanatory song been written.”