UGLY CASANOVA
SHARPEN YOUR TEETH (SUB POP)
Original 13 track album + 4 bonus tracks, including previously unreleased "They Devised A Plan to Fuck Forever".
Sub Pop reissue of "Sharpen Your Teeth", the underground classic and lone offering from Ugly Casanova.
The long, out-of-print vinyl edition will come with the original 13 track album and 4 bonus songs: "Babies Clean Conscience," "Diggin Holes," "Roads to Go to Roads to Go to..." (which were available as limited edition singles around the album's release); And the unreleased "They Devised A Plan to Fuck Forever," recorded during the Sharpen Your Teeth sessions.
Ugly Casanova is Isaac Brock, of Modest Mouse. Or, possibly, it is a mysterious savant named Edgar Graham, who imposed himself on Modest Mouse at the Denver show of the band's 1998 tour, introduced himself as Ugly Casanova, and, through a haze of unnerving instability, shared some rough songs with the band.
His songs, though delivered hesitantly. shamefully, even. displayed unmistakable talent.
By the end of Modest Mouse's tour, Casanova, with much reluctance, was persuaded to record some of these songs and hand them over to record labels for issue as singles or parts of compilations.
Predictably, immediately after he had done so, he disappeared. Produced by Brian Deck and Isaac Brock at Glacial Pace Studios (Oregon), Ugly Casanova's songs are here performed by Misters Brock and Deck, as well as John Orth (Holopaw), Tim Rutili (Califone, Red Red Meat), Pall Jenkins (The Black Heart Procession), and a handful of like-minded collaborators.