///Intimacy Coordinator - Out on Valentines Day 2022///

Straight White Teeth is the tenacious songwriting project of musician and writer Patrick McGuire. In recent years McGuire has shifted from sardonic synth pop towards a preference for organic, stripped down instrumentation and understated lo-fi folk. Intimacy Coordinator, Straight White Teeth’s forthcoming third full-length record, leverages insightful piano, baroque finger-plucked acoustic guitars, and gauzy, despair-tinged vocals to craft melancholic songs that chronicle the sudden end of McGuire’s seven-year relationship. Written and recorded over a tumultuous two-month period shortly before, during, and after McGuire’s breakup in the spring of 2021, Intimacy Coordinator revels in the sturdy comfort of long-term love, poetically rages at its irreversible unraveling, and deeply mourns its absence. 

“If this album sounds rushed, that’s because it was,” says McGuire. “These songs were too painful to work on for too long. I’ve never wanted to be finished with something more in my life.”

Featuring the most intimate original music of McGuire’s career along with two haunting covers that were significant to the couple, Intimacy Coordinator is an affecting musical meditation on the dramatic end of a shared life.

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People's negative impressions can drape over you, especially when they come from someone who has been important to you. It can be beneficial to look at these impressions as schoolyard names that once slid off of you, and find a way to laugh them away as nothing more than something that interrupted a game of tag with those that know you best. They're wrong.

They're Wrong

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Everything

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download / streaming link: fanlink.to/WYDHNTS
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lyrics:
Christmas Eve, sorry to wake you with this call one day early 
I don't mind you calling me this late, I've been waiting by the phone anyway 
You know how it is, something's can't wait 
Another years worth of things I could say 
To your face 
Just so happens when I see you, I’ll have kept them safe. 
Without you, Die Hard's not the same 
Without you, Die Hard's not the same 

First line on my Christmas list this year, is to see the headlights shine, as you appear 
Oh dear sweet, should you leave right now and drive this night to me 
Well you know how it is, some hearts won’t break 
And your time’s my precious keepsake 
I’m on my way 
Once, in a while, dreaming of you, loving you 
Without you, Frozen's not the same 
Without you, Muppets doesn't play. 
Without you, Bublé's out of place 
Without you, Rudolph flies away 
Yippy-ki-yay, John McClane 
With you, I'd jingle all the way 

I don't mind you calling me this late / Christmas Eve, sorry to wake you with this call one day early / I've been waiting by the phone anyway 
Oh dear sweet, should you leave right now and drive this night to me / First line on my Christmas list this year, is to see the headlights shine, as you appear 
You know how it is, your mother’s tree 
Will be all dressed up in chandeliers 
Stood pretty 
And I’ll place a perfect star, atop it. 
Til then it’s you that I shall miss 
Let’s wish us all Merry Christmas 
Everyone Merry Christmas 
Everyone Merry Christmas

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"First issued in 2018, this unforgettable original song written by smooth romancer Oliver Wilde (Pet Shimmers, Oro Swimming Hour) with the elegant songstress Helena Walker (Herbal Tea) was originally recorded in 2018 with additional instrumentation written and performed by multi-instrumentalist wizard Henry-Charles Sharpe (SLEEP RADIO) is finally being released for the first time in it’s original form on the 7th of December 2018. A sentimental family favourite ‘Without You, Die Hard’s Not The Same’ easily stands strong next to the holiday classics by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole."
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Oliver Wilde & Herbal Tea
Artwork by Herbal Tea

oliver wilde & herbal tea - without you, die hard's not the same

1979

A song (demo) about friendship.  There's some Korean in this one.  Comments welcome.  Will probably delete in a day or so.

IN YOUR FACE

Remember then
Way back when
It was a fight
That made us friends
Look at us now
Nothing’s really changed

Possibly wrong
Possibly right
It’s all the same
It’s how you play the game

Can we agree
To disagree
Still get together
Over a coffee
Shoot the breeze
With a smoke & whiskey?

You’re possibly wrong
I’m possibly right
It’s all the same
It’s how you play the game

You’re possibly right
I’m possibly wrong
Whatever happens let it be
We can still get along

가위 바위 보
하나 빼기
We’ll play for money
윷놀이

We pick up
Where we left off
As if we both
Were never gone
That says a lot 
Wouldn’t you agree

You’re possibly right
I’m possibly wrong
It’s all the same
It’s how we play the game

I’m possibly wrong
But most likely right
You know what’s up
You know I’m mostly always right
So, in your face
No, in YOUR face
NO, in YOUR face
No, in YOUR face

In Your Face DEMO

Marina

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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