London and Cork-raised musician San Vito Ryder chomps down hard with the darkly sensuous Cold Teeth, a song that treats desire like a dim bulb left on too long. Barber by day, independent musician by night, Ryder works with the patience of someone who understands precision. This feels like a chapter written with the lights lowered and the windows cracked, a colder discipline guiding the hand.
Cold Teeth frames seduction as distance. It moves through late hours where honesty stops performing and starts settling. Candlelight, cracked oil paintings, the quiet theatre of night – these images hover without insisting. The pull is slow, deliberate, and numb by design. You lean in, knowing warmth won’t answer back. Isolation becomes a partner you dance with because it’s there, because it listens; what attracts also anesthetizes. The chill reaches the mouth; the title lands physically.
“Screaming always feels better than crying,” goes the unspoken thesis, and the track allows both impulses to share the room. Isolation becomes a partner you dance with because it’s there, because it listens.
Produced by Kristian Bell (The Wytches) in Peterborough at The Hit Dungeon, the track features Simon Hedges on bass and Charlie Hughes on drums. Ryder’s black drip blues continues to take shape, pared down to the quick and with pure grit. There’s a lineage in Ryder’s sound that feels instinctive rather than studied: the feral poise of The Birthday Party, the clipped intelligence of The Fall. The song carries the skeletal discipline found in The Gun Club, the raw voltage that once powered The Cramps, and a sense of emotional exposure that nods towards Pixies and early Nirvana without borrowing posture. Post-punk minimalism and gothic rock inform the structure, but the song keeps its space. The groove sits unresolved, held in place rather than pushed forward. Punk appears as feeling distilled – less noise, more air. Ryder’s past associations orbit widely, but the point here is singular focus—hard to pin down because it doesn’t try to be.
“When listening to Cold Teeth, I see the side of me that tends to feel like they’re never part of anything,” admits Ryder. “Cold Teeth is a cocktail of isolation, resentment, and realising that life isn’t fair. Sad, I know, but I cherish this song.”
The video, directed by Patrick Ford, stays stark and direct: black and white; chains and a blazer. A performance stripped to motion and raw grit, matching the song’s tension.
Watch the video foe “Cold Teeth” below;
Listen to Cold Teeth below or stream here.
San Vito Ryder will embark on a UK tour in February (including a special Valentine’s Day show at The Old Church in London).
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