Sharpen Your Teeth

Sharpen Your Teeth

Studio album by Ugly Casanova
Released	May 21, 2002
Recorded	August 2001 Portland, Oregon
Genre	Indie rock
Length	49:55 (CD)
Label	Sub Pop Records SP0552
Producer	Brian Deck

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Pitchfork Media	(7.3/10)^[2]

Sharpen Your Teeth is an album by the indie rock band Ugly Casanova. Brainchild of Modest Mouse lead singer Isaac Brock, Ugly Casanova was his attempt to try new methods and genres outside the realms of Modest Mouse. The album sees Brock performing on more instruments and using a more stripped down method of recording. The story given is that an eccentric character named Edgar Graham met with Modest Mouse while on tour. During their time together, Graham and the band recorded a few songs together, and Graham completely disappeared. In an attempt to get Graham to resurface, Brock took the recordings to Sub Pop Records, redid them in the studio, and had them released as Sharpen Your Teeth. A follow-up is highly unlikely due to contractual obligations Brock has with Modest Mouse's label Epic Records. It has since been revealed that Brock fabricated the story himself, using Ugly Casanova as a method of writing music whilst not being recognized instantly as Modest Mouse.

Track listing

"Barnacles" (Isaac Brock, John Orth) - 5:05
"Spilled Milk Factory" - 4:26
"Parasites" - 3:36
"Hotcha Girls" - 4:59
"(No Song)" - 0:26
"Diamonds on the Face of Evil" - 3:16
"Cat Faces" - 3:36
"Ice on the Sheets" - 6:33
"Bee Sting" - 0:48
"Pacifico" - 2:31
"Smoke Like Ribbons" - 5:15
"Things I Don't Remember" - 3:29
"So Long to the Holidays" - 5:56

Personnel

Band

According to the liner notes:

2015 Reissue

In September 2015, it was announced that Sub Pop would reissue the album on black and limited edition yellow/white vinyl on October 30, along with four bonus tracks and an unreleased track from the album's recording sessions known as "They Devised a Plan to Fuck Forever".^[3]

References

Modest Mouse

Isaac Brock Jeremiah Green Tom Peloso Jim Fairchild Russell Higbee Lisa Molinaro Dann Gallucci Eric Judy Joe Plummer Johnny Marr Benjamin Weikel John Wickhart

Studio albums	This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About The Lonesome Crowded West The Moon & Antarctica Good News for People Who Love Bad News We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Strangers to Ourselves

EPs	Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect? Interstate 8 The Fruit That Ate Itself Night on the Sun Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks No One's First and You're Next

Other albums	Building Nothing Out of Something Sad Sappy Sucker Baron von Bullshit Rides Again

Singles	"A Life of Arctic Sounds" "Other People's Lives" "Never Ending Math Equation" "Heart Cooks Brain" "Float On" "Ocean Breathes Salty" "The World at Large" "Dashboard" "King Rat" "Missed the Boat" "We've Got Everything" "Satellite Skin" "Lampshades on Fire" "The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box"

Labels	Epic Records K Records Sub Pop Suicide Squeeze Records Up Records

Related	Discography Dirty Dozen Brass Band Seasick Steve Ugly Casanova

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