L’anarchiste, the band, got its start in late 2011 when primary songwriter Rob LeCheminant asked a few close musical-minded friends to play some songs he’d been working on privately in a live setting. After dropping out of music school and an enjoyable but ultimately failed run with a previous band, LeCheminant found himself musically jaded and apathetic.

LeCheminant released a self-titled ep of songs he’d recorded by himself in December of 2011. The response was immediate, and LeCheminant and his new bandmates played their first show at Salt Lake City’s vaunted Kilby Court in February of 2012. Word began to spread, and soon the band was performing with the likes of Caveman, Here We Go Magic, and mewithoutYou, among others. They won Salt Lake City Weekly's “Band of the Year” for 2013 that June. Later that year they their first proper studio recording, a self-produced EP entitled The Traveler.

What their debut full length record Giant was originally intended to be, and what it actually became, are wildly different albums. Written in the foothills of Salt Lake City in the trees on a hammock by a creek, Giant is self-reflective and auto-biographical, yet woven into these personal narratives is an overarching theme of complexities human interrelation and the good - and bad – found therein.



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Straight White Teeth is the sprawling alternative music project of Patrick McGuire. Formed in Denver, Colorado in 2015 after the breakup of McGuire’s band Flashbulb Fires, Straight White Teeth leverages everything from startlingly intimate lo-fi folk to club-ready electronics to make songs about grief, longing, hope, depression, sex, spirituality, love––the endlessly complex and fascinating pursuit of what it means to be a feeling, conscious human being. With a wide collection of mostly self-produced and self-released songs that have only grown in output in recent years, Straight White Teeth is resigned to, and perhaps even a bit excited about, not knowing exactly what it is, where it's headed, and what it’s capable of as a vehicle for poetic music-making. 

In 2015, Straight White Teeth shared two EPs: Medicine Sword, the project’s debut, and A Merciful, a dark and affecting collection of demos McGuire began writing in 2011. “Lifetime,” a synth-driven Straight White Teeth single released in 2017, charted up at #6 on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic radio show in Los Angeles and helped earn the project a small but avid following. “Flowering” was shared a year later, a sparse and gorgeous track featuring only McGuire’s haunting baritone alongside finger-plucked acoustic accompaniment.

After multiple moves across the US taking the multi-instrumentalist from Philadelphia to rural New Mexico, the project’s debut album was released in 2019. Charming Pet Gifs is a flawed but memorable record exploring McGuire’s deep apprehension of social media and an interest in singularity bordering between fascination and fear. Two albums featuring minimal, organic instrumentation were released in 2021 and 2022, Costilla and Intimacy Coordinator, as well as music released by the Artlist Originals label, which has paired Straight White Teeth’s music with countless independent vlogs, podcasts, and other media.

Straight White Teeth released one EP in early 2023, and listeners can expect the project’s fourth LP later this year along with live performances in McGuire’s current home of Kansas City and throughout the United States.

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