Fox Teeth  -  Tite!  (self-released)   I'm always thrilled to find new bands who combine two of my favorite genres: emo and shoegaze. Is emo-gaze a thing? I almost hope not, because that name is horrendous, even if the music itself is extremely up my alley. However, most bands playing with influences from those two venerated genres end up swinging to one side more than the other. You either get the blissed-out heaviness of a band like Gleemer or something more in-line with janglier bands like Thank You, I'm Sorry, where the only shoegaze thing about them is the use of reverb. New Jersey trio Fox Teeth split the difference in the best way on their new record Tite! Every part of  Tite! , the band's first release since 2019's Poets & Ghosts  EP, unifies their influences in a pure distillation of potent songwriting. It accomplishes everything that a band wants a first record to accomplish, a level-up in every way. Fox Teeth clearly held that mindset going i...