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 the ARIA Award for Producer of the Year. Owusu was nominated for Best Artist and Kofi Anash & Bailey Howard were nominated for Best Cover Art. At the J Awards of 2021, the album won the Australian Album of the Year and in March 2022, won the Australian Music Prize and Best Record at the 2022 Rolling Stone Australia Awards. At the AIR Awards of 2022, it won Independent Album of the Year. Smiling with No Teeth received critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 86 based on six reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 8.1 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. Mark Salisbury of Earmilk praised the album, saying that it "is a visceral sonic attack on t