Taste Test: My Crooked Teeth longs for ‘Something Real’
The Oxford musician carries hope on his sleeve for a brighter future.
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We’re born to live, to dream, to feel things, deeply and fully. For better or worse, we make due with whatever hand we’re dealt, and we brave the fog of early morning and forge ahead. Oxford-based singer-songwriter My Crooked Teeth (real name Jack Olchawski) coerces himself into thinking hopeful of a future that stretches before him as far as the eye can see – one of great uncertainty and unease. With “Something Real,” a greying wash of country teardrops ping off his guitar and piano work into a true saloon spinner. “You took the part of me that I was somehow proud of being,” he sings. As hopeful as the gleam in his eye is, there’s an imposing melancholy that he wears upon his sleeve, stitched with world-weary problems and the resolve to never give up. His heart, however, beats and throbs with an admirable resilience in time with the slow, muted waltz number.
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