Tei Shi - Crawl Space - Review
Tei Shi- Crawl Space The 2017, debut album Crawl Space delivers a curious and roundly enjoyable introduction to Valerie Teicher’s project, Tei Shi. With a production quality that warrants the acclaim the album received upon release, Crawl Space’s best moments come when Teicher’s ethereal vocals combine seamlessly with catchy riffs and pop-infused back beats and texture. Launching us in to the album is a wonderfully creative tape-recorder motif that reappears periodically throughout the album. Keep Running is the album’s first musical track and feels very much like a hand-shake introduction to the album’s experimental and poppy textures and Teicher’s gorgeous vocal tones. While not necessarily a track that would demand repeated plays, its catchy, pleading chorus and head-bob inducing bass line is fantastic and creates curiosity in the listener; an auditory “please come in”. Spring boarding from this is Creep, a track that ups the ante in terms of production innovation. Th...