Teeth & Tongue, the music project of Jess Cornelius, has evolved into a five-piece live band using sampled drums, live guitars and walls of layered vocals, and weaves together unlikely combinations of dance, post-punk, garage, RnB, folk, disco and pop. On Teeth & Tongue's fourth album, 'Give Up on Your Health,' Jess Cornelius has crafted kitchen-sink dramas and relationship vignettes that follow a lineage from Ken Loach through Jarvis Cocker. As the New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based songwriter explains, "In the past I've written personal material, but this album is more about observation. I was reading essays by [American poet] Eileen Myles and she has this stream-of-consciousness style, no filter." Their last album, 'Grids,' released in 2014 by Dot Dash / Remote Control, was named RRR Album of the Week and Double J Feature Album, and led to appearances at Meredith Music Festival, Boogie, White Night, MONA and NGV Friday Nights, and was nominated for three The Age Music Victoria awards.