What you'll notice first about Slow Teeth's sound is the space it fills. No matter the venue, listening to this band places you in a large room; the sound surrounds you and draws you in.
Three people create this big sound. Jeremy Haire, technical director at Cat's Cradle, plays guitar. Robert Chamberlain works at Twin House Music on West Main St. and plays drums and synthesizers. And Justin Ellis, music teacher and coordinator of the Carrboro Music Festival, plays bass. All three band members sing.
Ellis recalls the day Slow Teeth, a post-rock band, formed in June 2021; they still perform three pieces they wrote that day. Their method is to record improvisations and write songs around them. Musical influences overlap for the three individuals but no more than two share the same artists. So their work together melds those commonalities with the differences in taste and style that each individual brings to the group. Ellis believes this creates a wholly unique sound; there's not as much "borrowing" or identifiable influences in their music as in that of other bands. Among their influences, Ellis cites Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Sigur Rós (from Iceland), and The Verve.
