You cannot kiss a laughing mouth (POWWOW Five) by Touch Typist

Trailblazing transcendent avant-pop.

Album title: You cannot kiss a laughing mouth (POWWOW Five)
Artist: Touch Typist
Catalog number: FM44
Release date: December 2007

1. A Laughing Mouth 5:07
2. Late of Light 6:13
3. Nostalgia is a Lake 4:03
4. We are Half Awake 7:46
5. Romance / Chaos 6:53

Top 10 Australian releases 2007
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very much an underrated local record from 2007, i like it more and more when i listen back... there goes that word again: understated. a lot going on - ethereal synths and pretty glitches, a really driving beat (be it drums, performed live on occasion standing up or by guitar or by tig's keys), a half-spoken languid-meets-laconic delivery in a distinctly australian accent from nick huggins to match his equally deft guitar strokes (bringing to mind the the amanset school of subtlety). all played down by a light, almost feathery touch - but by no means light-weight.
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Band members:
touch typist is Mark Gretton, Tig Huggins, Nick Huggins

Other performer credits: Featuring Dave Henry on trumpet

Music produced by touch typist
Recorded during 2007 at ‘a pocket full of stones’ studio in Point Lonsdale
Mastered by Anthony Norris

Other liner notes:
All songs written by Huggins/ Gretton/ Huggins
touch typist thanks Tok, Two Bright Lakes, Albert’s Basement, Dave Henry, Kid Sam, Faux Pas,
our dear parents, Lara and Den, Tim, Juan, Grace, Horse Bazaar, Kim Jirik, Nina-Marie Petrik, Declan Kelly, and Danny Jumpertz