Press
Time Out New York, October 2007
“Exemplary local electropop trio Fur Cups For Teeth celebrates the release of its second record, ‘Fun Luck You Keep.’ Its stylish, ruthlessly catch new stuff suggests Sleater-Kinney gone girl-group.”
FCFT is the face of New York’s Rebel Youth, according to New York Magazine.
Chief Magazine, issue 6
The Cups discuss their lack of strategy, love of Dada and ongoing battle with technology in this interview.
Pazz & Jop “Best Albums,” 2004
The Village Voice
“Allergic 2 Fur” makes The Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop “Best Albums” list of 2004
Best CDs of 2004
Philadelphia City Paper
Fur Cups for Teeth’s EP “Allergic 2 Fur” named one of Philadelphia City Paper’s Best CDs of 2004.
Philadelphia City Paper Music Picks, October 20-26, 2005
“Part vacuum-pushing pep squad, part women’s studies posse, Fur Cups for Teeth are foot soldiers in the dance revolution. Last year’s self-released Allergic 2 Fur EP was on the same page, sonically, politically and quality-wise, as Le Tigre’s This Island. From the absurdist manifesto ‘Boxed Lunch’ to the dubby, Simon-sampling ‘Christmas Presence,’ the Brooklyn trio mixes electro and rock with aplomb. For their next trick, Jeannie Kim says they’ve replaced the canned beats with Dead Betties drummer Derek Pippin. The new tracks split the difference in styles, with the pro-Bouvier ‘Edie Idol’ in the electro category and the anti-Bush ‘Ce Soir’ in the rock pile. Now in the mixing stage, the songs have been honed onstage and just need a home on disc. ‘We hope they will be done by the end of the year,’ Kim says, ‘and hopefully by then someone will want to sign us and help us distribute the album.’ Who wouldn’t?”
WCUR 91.7FM | West Chester University Radio, November 26, 2004
“What do you get when you combine distorted power chords, speak n’ spells, kazoos and wailing Kathleen Hanna-esque female vocals? You get ‘Fur Cups For Teeth’ and their debut EP ‘Allergic 2 Fur’. This album is a riot grrrl’s less politically crazy kid sister that has undergone much better production than it ever would have in 1994. Don’t get me wrong though, this IS a feminist-conscious Brooklyn-based trio, they played Lady Fest East, but they certainly aren’t wailing “suck my left one” like Bikini Kill did ten years ago. Jeannie Kim, Nicole Whelan and Keach Hagey are really hot Brooklyn girls that collaborated and recorded this album with Hillary Johnson. The girls are electroclash hip-shakers in a way Bikini Kill never was with swaggering lyrics like “I wouldn’t give a little bit of me for designer jeans and I wouldn’t take what you’ve lost for a $100 haircut” in “$100 Haircut”. You’ll find yourself totally doing the running man and hand clapping to the cheereleading layered over vocals in “Mystery Train”. Watch out Le Tigre, you’ve got some competition.”
Punk Planet #62, Starred review of “Allergic 2 Fur”
“Stand-out tracks include the grooving, ‘Going to Bars,’ which verges on electro-snob, but the woo-woooooo of a slide whistle removes any and all pretensions. And you’ve gotta give it up for the revved-up vacuum cleaner slicing through ‘Happy For, Proud Of.’ ‘Mystery Train’ is undoubtedly the money-shot song on this eight-track CD. The soulful chorus, ‘Darling, darling, your love is like a mystery trai-ai-ain/ Wherever it goes, it goes and it ain’t never comin’ back-ack-ack-ack,’ intertwines seamlessly with a bust-out-your-pom-poms cheer. If you ain’t careful, the Train will pummel through your brain.
The Daily Collegian, Weekend section (front page), August 5, 2004
“Fur Cups For Teeth isn’t exactly an ordinary band name. But this group isn’t exactly an ordinary band…” Read the whole of the article, “Routstabout! A little hairy,” here.
Centre Daily Times, Weekender, Aug 6-12th
“Fur Cups For Teeth doesn’t hang with the riot grrls, but the band is too hardcore for the Catholic-school girl crowd. These girls…seem to have upended the notion of femininity in the punk-rock scene.” Read full article, “Not-so-quiet riot: Fur Cups bust out of feminist punk,” here.
Pittsburgh City Paper, Weeklink, Aug. 8th – 11th
“Meret Oppenheimer’s Luncheon in Fur is splashed across Fur Cups For Teeth’s website, demonstrating that they’re following in Le Tigre’s footsteps by packaging feminist theory in fun, danceable pop music that’s still gritty and kitschy enough for the Dickies-wearing vegans who worshipped Bikini Kill in high school. They play electronic pop using toys from the ‘80s, wear colored tights and vintage pumps, and they’re even from Brooklyn! Who knew that Simon could be an instrument as well as a prize for toy collectors?”
New York Press
“Like the coddled daughters of Madonna and Tristan Tzara, electro-punk trio Fur Cups For Teeth hits the stage with an arsenal of tiny instruments…”
The Boston Globe, Go! Section, August 12, 2004
“A dissonant, caustic, rockin’, and thumpin’ all-girl trio? Right up Go!’s alley.
Kitty Magik, #10
“With Le Tigre signed to a major label, who will represent for NYC DIY punk-electro girl love now? Why, Fur Cups for Teeth, of course! Armed with keyboards, drum machines, guitars, and a whole lot of toys, these three Brooklyn girls party like electroclash never died. The first track on their debut EP is a theme song / mission statement that begins with the immortal line, ‘We are longing to rock your liberal arts college.’”
CrashinIn.com
“FCFT are three girls having a great time. It’s a simple concept that leads to fun, dancy music. They first formed in 2001 based around the sounds of a Speak n Spell, Simon Says, Kazoo, an accordion, washboard, and a vacuum cleaner. As messed up as that sounds, it makes for one interesting and highly innovative sound. Bringing in some punk electro-pop influences the girls have managed to make their songs move kids along the dance floor. FCFT remind me of a cross between Le Tigre, Bikini Kill, and Ladytron.”
Jenyk.com
“Into everyone’s life a little Fur Cups For Teeth ought to fall. Jiving and juking, screaming and trashing, laughing and sneering like a post-apocalyptic Supremes meets Le Tigre, the three girls of FCFT are easily the most original and uh, ballsy, performers in the City today.”