Mouth Tooth
Courtesy of Smooch Records, you are welcome to experience Mouth Tooth’s gorgeous 2013 EP Group Therapy/Memory Foam that features the duo of Rhys Mitchell & Max Turner making music to score your next big heartbreak. Outside of making the most heart-wrenching pop ever committed to tape, Rhys is also an actor/filmmaker who has made videos for Client Liaison, Kirin J Callinan, etc; as Max too makes films while also performs in the group SMILE. When Australian duo combine talents & collective powers, the melancholic melodies that make up the Mouth Tooth aesthetic fill the air like the feeling of a long walk home after having your heart & world ripped from you. The Smooch re-release of Group Therapy couples it with Memory Foam that continues the duo’s own sad chapters.
The solemn rejection of “Outro” is heard like a moping game of kick the can from Mouth Tooth that ponders the things that matter with lyrics like, “love is all that matters pretty much and I want to know why love comes & goes by…” These major departures & new beginnings are pondered with tear stained strings and the sound of a saddened melodica that sends out teary-eyed sentiments into the great side open atmosphere. The concept of Memory Foam here is something more than just some space-age bed material but rather a place of rest that is rife with nostalgic rememberances that flicker like watching old VHS taped family memories that feature relatives that are no longer with us anymore.
Group Therapy / Memory Foam is the debut record—a double EP made over four years—of Max Turner and Rhys Mitchell. They write and perform as Mouth Tooth.
Group Therapy is a meditation in loneliness.
Memory Foam is about the sometimes delusional nature of romanticism highlighting the fleeting nature of love and life.
Mouth Tooth is an expression of Max and Rhys and humour is inevitable.
Both film-makers, Max and Rhys infuse their music with a quality of filmic artistry.
Each video for the Memory Foam EP links through a linear narrative; the record can be experienced like a film. Cinematic, Mouth Tooth offers an intimate and personal experience of mood or understanding and passion.
