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CAT#: ULY035
ARTIST: David Michael Moore
TITLE: Tooth Mama Coming
DATE: 10/30/2024
FORMAT: Digital

PRICE: $7

Back in July we expertly declared Circle the Wagons the first of three perfect masterpieces from David Michael Moore’s back catalog, which we are lucky to be introducing to the world. This, 1999’s Tooth Mama Coming, is the next certifiable masterstroke. It’s a simmering caldron of ectoplasmic gumbo.

Tooth Mama Coming is a conjuring, a calling forth and an opening up. A dilation of the heart and mind into a horizonless realm for spirits to inhabit. These compositions, such as the blithely titled “Centipede Sauce” and “Tantric Thong”, are improvised ceremonial invocations. ASMR hoodoo portals crossing betwixt worlds. Furies, archangels, lost souls and dead dogs strolling freely between Space, Time and Your Temporal Lobe. Choruses of grackles, tabby cats, owls, frogs, coyotes and locusts rising and falling among David’s handmade buzz boxes, kettle drums, schizoid zithers, African Squeeze Drum and electric wire marimba. Each composition presenting a seductive, loping tempo. Deep percussion somehow given rounded soundshapes, a soothing tingle. And so, it stands in contrast with the angular clattering and manic energy of ‘Bird Head Burlando’ which we released at the top of 2024. And the fluid arch of ‘Tooth Mama’ feels more focused than the playful, offbeat experiments on ‘Buzzcats… Raw and Dirty’ from this summer. Tooth Mama Coming crosses into a more rarified plane. A pungent and tangy but not displeasing concentrate of wildassery. Distilled vanguard. We’re gently lowered into this seething, diving roux which chunk-by-loving-chunk removes this useless and burdensome skin suit. Ahhhh, that’s better. 

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