Teen Haters

Teen Haters are the collaborative pairing of Helen Greenfield and Peter Wright, which formed in Lyttelton New Zealand in 2012. The duo improvise live in a simple combination of Helen’s amplified and processed cello coupled with Peter’s open-tuned electric guitars and effects, creating densely decaying drones and tentative, fragile tonal shifts underscored by an ever-present seething layer of looped distortion and woosy electronics that constantly threatens to erupt into scorched and blackened feedback. Sometimes Teen Haters crash and burn in a tangle of their own making, on other occasions they fade into a pastoral reverie that could be mistaken for composition. Every performance is an unrehearsed one-off, never-to-be repeated experience.