Perhaps the least-known Sub Pop records of the last ten years — okay, maybe Combustible Edison or the Blue Rags might be more obscure — Ugly Casanova’s Sharpen Your Teeth is everything I always wanted Modest Mouse to sound like but never found. What initially drew me to this record wasn’t Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, but Red Red Meat members Tim Rutili and Brian Deck, and the Black Heart Procession’s Pall Jenkins. I wish I remember how I found out about it originally, because I would credit whoever gave me the record, but alas I have no idea where it came from.
Compared to Modest Mouse (whom I can stand only in small doses) this is more stripped down, a little weirder, a little bit less in-your-face with the vocals, and definitely more avant. I know so many people who try to sell me on Modest Mouse but I just can’t make the leap. I don’t really like them. And yet, I really like this Ugly Casanova album.
This was the band’s only release, and the vinyl fetches quite a pretty penny on the open market. Enjoy!
Ugly Casanova
Sharpen Your Teeth
Sub Pop, 2002
MediaFire DL Link
01. Barnacles
02. Spilled Milk Factory
03. Parasites
04. Hotcha Girls
05. (No Song)
06. Diamonds On The Face Of Evil
07. Cat Faces
08. Ice On The Sheets
09. Beesting
10. Pacifico
11. Smoke Like Ribbons
12. Things I Don’t Remember
13. So Long To The Holidays
