Smiling with No Teeth

Smiling with No Teeth
Studio album by
Genesis Owusu
Released5 March 2021
Genre
Length53:54
Label
  • Ourness
  • House Anxiety
Producer
Genesis Owusu chronology
Cardrive EP
(2017) 		Smiling with No Teeth
(2021) 		Struggler
(2023)
Singles from Smiling with No Teeth
  1. "Don't Need You"
    Released: 15 May 2020
  2. "Whip Cracker"
    Released: 6 June 2020
  3. "The Other Black Dog"
    Released: 19 November 2020
  4. "Gold Chains"
    Released: 19 February 2021
  5. "Drown"
    Released: 3 March 2021
  6. "Waitin' On Ya'"
    Released: December 2021[1]
Singles from Missing Molars
  1. "Same Thing"
    Released: 2 June 2021
  2. "The Fall"
    Released: 14 July 2021

Smiling with No Teeth is the debut studio album by Australian musician Genesis Owusu, released on 5 March 2021 through Ourness. The album features a guest appearance from Kirin J. Callinan and production from Callinan, Andrew Klippel, Dave Hammer, Harvey Sutherland, Joe LaPorta, and Matt Corby.

Preceded by five singles—"Don't Need You", "Whip Cracker", "The Other Black Dog", "Gold Chains", and "Drown" (featuring Kirin J. Callinan)—Smiling with No Teeth debuted at number 27 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards, the album won Album of the Year, Best Hip Hop Release and Best Independent Release while Andrew Klippel and Dave Hammer won Producer of the Year. Owusu was nominated for Best Artist and Kofi Anash & Bailey Howard were nominated for Best Cover Art.[2]

At the J Awards of 2021, the album won the Australian Album of the Year[3][4] and in March 2022, won the Australian Music Prize[5] and Best Record at the 2022 Rolling Stone Australia Awards.[6] at the AIR Awards of 2022, it won Independent Album of the Year.[7]


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  1. ^ "Watch Genesis Owusu get lost on an island in new "Waitin' On Ya'" video". NME Australia. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  2. ^ Kelly, Vivienne (20 October 2021). "ARIA Awards nominees revealed: Amy Shark & Genesis Owusu lead the charge". The Music Network. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  3. ^ Kelly, Vivienne (1 November 2021). "Triple j reveals J Awards nominees". The Music Network. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  4. ^ "Genesis Owusu leads this year's 2021 J Awards winners". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 18 November 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Genesis Owusu has won the $30,000 Australian Music Prize". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  6. ^ "All the winners from the 2022 Rolling Stone Australia Awards". The Music Network. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  7. ^ Tyler Jenke (5 August 2022). "Genesis Owusu Wins Big At The 2022 AIR Awards". MusicFeeds. Retrieved 6 August 2022.