Hustle Beach is the third album from Chicago's Baby Teeth, a band long celebrated for their chops, songwriting and massively entertaining live shows. Comprised of songwriter, keyboardist, and singer Abraham Levitan (Bobby Conn and the Glass Gypsies, Pearly Sweets and the Platonics), who heads a piano-teaching group and composes music for underground theater, bassist Jim Cooper (Detholz!, Bobby Conn and the Glass Gypsies), a film composer and church orchestra director, and drummer Peter Andreadis (All City Affairs), a mastering engineer and live sound man for The Sea and Cake, Baby Teeth concentrate a substantial blend of musical talents into hard-hitting pop. Their new album captures the intensity of Baby Teeth's performances with its live and lean production and the immediacy of the recording lends an extra kick to the album's literate lyrics and strong melodies.

Hustle Beach is the fruit of a songwriting blog, "52 Teeth," maintained by Levitan, on which he posted a new song each week for one year. Over the course of this project, inspired by Philip Roth's American Pastoral, he began writing about suburban dystopia, generating the lyrical heart of the album -- songs like "Big Schools," "The Swede," and "Hustle Beach." The album shows Levitan’s newfound commitment to lyrically direct songwriting. It's a gritty response for the recession era, facing life as it is – growing up, getting married, going on vacations, acquiring material possessions, losing material possessions, growing old – with humor and intelligence fully intact. It's also a terribly catchy record that makes you drive fast.