Teeth Like God's Shoeshine

The album was released on November 18, 1997 on Up Records and recorded between May 22 and June 7, 1997. Phil Ek recorded this song, "Doin' the Cockroach" and "Cowboy Dan" at Avast and Jon and Stu's in Seattle, and the rest at Moon Studios in Olympia. Calvin Johnson, Isaac Brock and Scott Swayze produced the album, with Swayze engineering. It runs 6:53 and was not a single; the only single from the album was "Heart Cooks Brain" backed with "Shit Luck" in the UK on July 2, 1999.

The song was already in the live set by March 1, 1996, when MusicBrainz lists a recording from Moe's Mo' Rockin' Cafe in Seattle. PopMatters' Corey Beasley reads the opener as introducing the album's loneliness and the claustrophobia of suburban sprawl, moving from anger to guilt turned inward. Treble's Jeff Terich likened Brock's guitar crashing against Jeremiah Green's drums to a relentless series of lightning strikes. We found no statement from Brock on the song. Car Seat Headrest played it in a May 9, 2020 livestream.