In the suburbs, life moves at a slower pace; routine is valued and gossip fuels the local news. Dizzy are a band from Oshawa, Ontario who make music to combat the anxieties of this provincial ennui. Like most small-town millennials, the members went to high school basement parties, fell in love, and felt insecure. Unlike most of their peers, though, Dizzy ditched the routine high school to college to 9 to 5 trajectory to create story-songs out of their coming of age.

An eloquent lyricist who grew up inspired by music ranging from alternative (Alvvays, Bright Eyes) to the storytelling qualities of country pop (Taylor Swift, Dixie Chicks), Katie explains Baby Teeth is“mostly about my late teen years and the time since. Making music always stemmed from my being overly sensitive about everything. When you’re that close to so many people, you’re bound to meet the characters that screw you up enough to start writing about them. Oshawa introduced me to friendship and heartache and change while keeping me bored enough to sit at home and write about it.”

For the Spencer brothers, making music seemed fated—thanks in large part to parents who put instruments in their hands as far back as they can remember. “They always encouraged us to learn the way we wanted to, whether that was by taking lessons or just learning songs we liked by listening to them,” Charlie recalls. Suburban boredom was another driving force behind their interest in music, and once they found a kindred spirit in Katie, the band began to take shape.

On Baby Teeth, Munshaw uses the lessons she’s learned from her coming of age to remind us that“sometimes all you can do is flip onto your back, catch your breath, and float for a bit.” An auspicious and fully realised debut, Baby Teeth marks the exciting arrival of a bright young Canadian band whose career is just beginning.