“Dial Up”, directed by Teether & Kuya Neil’s ongoing visual partner Phillip Dixon VII is a rattling illustration of cultish ritual. Dixon shares “Pushing the album’s visuals toward something more tactile and handcrafted, I drew inspiration from the movies of Sergei Parajanov and Andrzej Żuławski for this clip. Texture, ritual and emotional rawness felt like the right language for the paranoid, psychedelic epiphany Teether unravels over Kuya Neil and Stoneset’s bouncing production. With Ryan Bell’s deep-focus super 16mm cinematography, Erika Beiza’s surreal face paint, and Klari Agari’s handcrafted costumes, we set out to make every frame feel like a cracked relic from another time.”

Recorded in Naarm / Melbourne and completed in London, YEARN IV captures both Teether & Kuya Neil’s global influences distilled with the strength of their connection to the local scene – illustrated by today’s feature with Stoneset alongside forthcoming collaborations with Alice Skye and 1300’s Nerdie. A blur of sonic and thematic boundaries, the record captures the brooding and vivid world of two musical outsiders raised by the internet.

A sharp, serrated release for Teether and Kuya Neil, debut album YEARN IV is surreal but not esoteric, jagged but singular. Their knack for beats, hooks and flow is seemingly out of this world, infused with unparalleled swagger, but with enough aptitude and pragmatism never to betray form. Teether and Kuya Neil dance with musical structure just as they roast and eulogise the societal structures that formed them, finding their voice amid a sea of clashing cultural experiences, sonic histories, and the isolation of contemporary urban Australia.

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