Did you forget I’m made of all the things that eat you whole?
You can tear me apart in pieces,
You’ll regurgitate my bones.
My blood is poison and I’ll put you in your grave.
There’s a moment when the mirror looks back at you, and you don’t recognize the person staring. That’s where Spiralteeth begins. The Los Angeles project, helmed by Lark Detweiler, wrestles with the idea of the doppelgänger: the worst parts of the self whispering back in stereo. Ladyofthelake, their new single from the upcoming Pain and Solace, is the sound of that inner brawl made flesh, bruised and beautiful.
Detweiler is a singular figure in the LA underground. A deaf artist and professional dancer, Detweiler experiences music through vibration and motion, letting rhythm seep into every gesture. Spiralteeth is the outlet for those after-hours obsessions: songs that live between nightclub abandon and intimate confession. Since the project’s birth in 2024, it’s been less about genre allegiance than about chasing the spark of emotion wherever it leads…nature, cinema, liminal spaces, or the quiet hum of a city that never sleeps.
Ladyofthelake plays like a fever dream in three acts: reflection, confrontation, and collapse. The lyrics trace a phantom through alleyways, across water, into the mirror itself. Love tangles with rage. Abandonment turns into violence. Bones, poison, and devotion become metaphors for the impossible push-and-pull of desire and destruction. It’s equal parts Gothic horror and whispered love letter, a track that dances as much as it threatens.
Musically, Spiralteeth stands in conversation with a wide spectrum of post-punk and ethereal lineage. You hear echoes of Visage’s sleek romanticism, Asylum Party’s frostbitten melancholy, Double Echo’s spectral synths, Concrete Blonde’s widescreen drama, This Mortal Coil’s midnight hymns, The Shroud’s dreamlike weight, and Forever Grey’s funeral dirges. Spiralteeth isn’t chasing some lost era, however. This is music meant for the moment: songs that you feel in your chest, like the echo of a confession you can’t take back. Love and death waltz together, each step heavier than the last, each chorus a reminder that fighting your reflection is the only real fight there is.
We see this in the video, a blue-hued intense dance performance by Detwiler filmed in a claustrophobic space and intermittently emerging from a body of water. It feels nightmarish, combative, primal.
“I really wanted to work with director Sydney Mills because her directorial mind is amazing and she immediately understood my vision the second I approached her about doing this music video,” says Detweiler. “The doppelganger in this video is a lake creature, kind of a demonized version of the Lady of the Lake from Arthurian legends as well, where instead of offering the main character glory and a majestic sword, she comes after her to confront the deepest, darkest parts of the psyche.”
Watch the video for “Ladyofthelake” below:
You can pre-order Pain and Solace through Dum Dum Records here.
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