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Babytooth is the full band project of singer/songwriter Isabel Zacharias. A rotating cast of friends has brought the songs to life, but Annie Fifer's (Yellow Room) earworm guitar leads have been a constant, with the current lineup also including Hugh Jepson (Soft Cheese) behind the drums and Benson Chong (Honeydiu) playing bass. Elaborating on Pacific Northwest indie of the '90s, the songs skate between noisy melodic rock & twinkly folk experiments. A first EP, Thataway, arrived in 2020 via cassette-only label Bud Tapes — and its success helped establish the imprint as a go-to curator of the Portland DIY scene. With a debut full-length out now via Bud and like-minded tape label Antiquated Future, Zacharias continues to write intimate song portraits of distraction and awareness, aging and loss, comic relief, the everyday, and how memories inform identity.