Teargas & Plateglass

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Teargas & Plateglass is a band that was formed in late 2000, a collective once mistaken for a duo. Their name may come from a line in the A Silver Mt. Zion song 'Movie (Never Made);' "Let our crowds be fed on/Teargas and plate-glass/'Cause a people united/Is a wonderful thing."

Their short-run debut album came and went in 2004, noted mostly by other artists: Danger Mouse (“heavy visual stuff…sounds like the end of the world”), King Britt (“restores my faith that deep, dark music still moves the masses”), Chris Vrenna (“a soundtrack to the darkest places in my mind”), along with a few publications: XLR8R (“darkness mixed thick like a pool of blood… take with a stiff glass of Absinthe”). The album, marked by its startling black and white cover photo (by illustrious Brazilian photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado), included tracks with Zap Mama, and cha'abi moderne singer Natacha Atlas.

That year, Teargas & Plateglass produced the song “When We Are Ignorant” with poetess Ursula Rucker, as well as produced remix collaborations for The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Tweaker with David Sylvain and Tweaker with Jennifer Charles. Teargas & Plateglass has often chosen its company carefully, through criteria often misunderstood.

After the accidental death of a co-founder at the beginning of 2004, Teargas & Plateglass retreated until almost a year later, when the band reappeared to perform five eastern European shows anonymously, guised under the names Septagon, Undecagon, Duodecagon, Enneacontagon, Hecatommyriagon. Three U.S. shows followed, under the names Accuser, Seducer, and Destroyer.

[edit] Notable Songs

The song Plague Burial, which features David Hykes, was used as the music for the X-Men 3 theatrical trailer, and another song, Book of Black Valentines was used for a non-theatrical trailer.

The music video for Plague Burial, released on October 31st, was directed by photographer Andrea Giacomini.

[edit] Discography

Teargas & Plateglass (album). Self-titled album released in 2004. Now out of print.
Black Triage (album). Forthcoming album to be released in 2008.