Mordecai Smyth "The Mayor Of Toytown Is Dead"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Progressive Rock/Pop
Label:  Mega Dodo (DODOLP18/DODOCD18)
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: November 11, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Billywitch (4:05)
2. The River Of Sleep (6:59)
3. Far From The Crowd (4:30)
4. Heading Back West (3:58)
5. Golf Girl (5:17)
6. A Knife And A Key (5:51)
7. Happy (4:01)
8. Stay With The Pulse (4:39)
9. Dissent Into Chaos (4:35)

Total Time 43:55

Line-up: 
Mordecai Smyth - vocals, guitars, mellotron, keys
   With
Tabitha Smyth - clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, backing vocal (5)
Icarus Peel - bass guitar, specialist feedback guitar, backing vocal
Dave Lambert (Strawbs, The Fire) - guitar solos (1, 9)
Darren Medland - acoustic guitar (3)
Catherine Earnshaw - vocals (3)
Deborah Pike - vocals (7)
Michael B. Creech - drums, percussion (1, 5, 6, 8, 9)
Mitch Griffin - drums (3, 7)
Martin Simmonds - drums (2)
Giampiero "GP" Nassi - drums (4)
Diane Prince - trombone (5l)
Sarah Rhiannon Parkes Bowen - flute (6)
Crystal Jacqueline - backing vocal (4)

Description/Reviews: 

The nine songs explore different aspects of psychedelic, progressive, Krautrock, and Canterbury music.... The album opens with “Billywitch,” a trippy middle-Eastern themed song about a May bug that ends with buzzing wings. “River of Sleep” is a somnolent psych-prog-jazz hybrid with beautiful sax and dreamy Mellotron. “Far from the Crowd” borrows the Mellotron theme from “The Court of the Crimson King” to accompany the vocals for an exquisite proggy arrangement. 

Read the full review by Henry Schneider at expose.org

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