Tooth — Mudlarking

Mudlarking is Australian instrumental duos Tooth third release, offering up  a double disk collection of progy tripped tunes that mix, various genre's and musical colours, all toped off with beats and a hippy type air. Making a varied and often inviting collection of tunes.

The album drifts musically, through lots of diffrent places and moods. The albums opener  Paris shade,  feels like a 70’s spy TV show  soundtrack, with modern edges to it. To the synthesizer and drum march of Ultimate kicks, with its guitar blues solo ripple. To the lover’s sunny walk in the park strum Passing through, which builds into hazy modern prog,  a drift with chanted tribal voices. All that’s just on the first disk,  so that’s lots to offer in musical variety.  There are a few guest appearances along the way too including on the second disk Daevid Allen (Gong etc) appears on the marketPlace, to give a great vocal performormce and instantly recognisable guitar work.

An enjoyable and relaxing dip into mulit coloured musically streams. On the down side some of it sounds a tad contrived, and some of the tracks tend to wonder, but maybe that’s because they fell into the double album trap. Never the less there’s enough quality here to warrant repeat playings .