As Gum Takes Tooth the duo of Thomas Fug and Jussi Brightmore plot an adventurous, idiosyncratic and wilfully unpredictable trajectory. Formed in East London in 2008, early material coalesced primitive Silver Apples electronics, thrashed live drum kit blast beat mayhem, and experimental noise from the raw energy of their gigs across the East London underground music and art scene. From these beginnings the outfit has continued to explore and mutate with an ever more nuanced approach while maintaining a staunch commitment to non-conformity, stubbornly eschewing genre constraints and modes of comparison. 
 Their fourth album ‘Recovery Position’ may represent a clean slate for Gum Takes Tooth at a time when this ever shifting and morphing entity sheds its skin once again, revealing a formidable new form. The fresh approach began when the band began experimenting live, channelling the sparks from all-electronic jam-driven spontaneity whilst also moving away from rock dynamics in favour of a more kaleidoscopic meld of ideas. 
 Recovery Position was not without its travails in the making, given the band’s personal challenges and reinventions yet true to form for this always quixotic outfit, what’s emerged from the cocoon of the difficult years since 2018’s ‘Arrow’ is their most singular and potent work to date - simultaneously their most pop-adjacent and their most extreme. Recovery Position is an audial landscape where psychic oppression is vanquished.