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Tooth lured to Warren for Lime Tree gig

Tooth Lures a Fang will roadtest some of the music for its next album when it performs Saturday at The Lime Tree.

“For the Warren show, we’ll be playing the whole first album and basically everything off the next one,” lead singer and guitarist Zach Starkie said.

The Cincinnati trio, which also features Nic Pater on bass and vocals and Jordan VonWahlde on drums and vocals, released the low-fi “Teefin'” in 2015, a self-recorded, self-produced album recorded live in the studio.

So far, only rehearsal demos have been recorded for the next album, but Starkie said the new album will differ in several ways.

“It’s way more collaborative,” he said. “The first album was a project of mine. I’d been writing a bunch of songs and wanted a band to play them with. For the second album, let’s write some songs, the three of us. Let’s find the triangulation where the three of us come together.”

Each member brings different influences to the group. Starkie said he loves Smashing Pumpkins, Elvis Costello and the 1990s music he grew up listening to on the former southwest Ohio alternative rock station WOXY-FM.

Pater is a fan of bands like Nine Inch Nails and Pedro the Lion. VonWahlde is a classically trained tuba player who likes folkie / indie acts like Andrew Bird and The Decemberists.

On the next record, the band also plans to do some overdubbing and layering of guitar parts, at least on a few tracks to vary its sound.

“It won’t be quite as low-fi,” Starkie said. “My only worry is some of the energy gets produced out of mix when you go in a track at a time. Hopefully, we can maintain the energy of the first record, just cleaner sounding and more balanced.”

With only a guitar and a rhythm section, Tooth Lures a Fang relies on the vocal interplay between Starkie and Pater to flesh out its songs.

“We call ourselves melodic garage rock but there are a lot of harmonies going on with the two vocals,” Starkie said.

While the band is prepared to release the next album on its own, the musicians plan to see if there is any label interest first.

“Once we have more solid demos, we’ll see if there are any smaller labels interested in doing a 45 release or a cassette release.”

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