Crooked Teeth takes pop hooks and rock sounds to make sound all their own, dream-punk. The outfit’s newest single showcases how alternative and mainstream sounds can be melded together. 

“Light Me Up” featuring Talker, embodies the cycle of emotions and obsessions one can find themselves trapped in after a breakup. 

The track follows the emotions one might experience during a breakup. “Light Me Up” builds up emotionally from self-loathing to anger, with measured verses and a bouncy chorus that reaches its breaking point at the bridge.

When talking about the new single, frontman Tyson Evan says;

“One thing I was feeling a lot was this weird sense of gaslighting – saying that things didn’t happen in the way that they did or things that are blatantly not factual or invalidating my emotions over it… I felt used out of all of it, like when you bum a cigarette off somebody – maybe you don’t even really smoke, but you bum a cigarette off someone to kill time… I was the cigarette that got bummed and then put out.”

“Light Me Up” was written with the help of Alan Day of Four Year Strong and mixed by Courtney Ballard (5 Seconds of Summer, All Time Low, Good Charlotte, Anti-Flag, Waterparks). 

Listen to Crooked Teeth’s new single “Light Me Up” below.