Murmur Tooth Releases Debut Full Length Album a Fault in This Machine
The first solo album by New Zealand musician and producer Leah Hinton (formerly El Schlong and Kobosh), was self-released on 19 March
Leah wrote, recorded, produced and mixed the album, which she loosely describes as “doom-pop”, in her lounge in Berlin. She also directed and edited the music videos.
Listen here: https://linktr.ee/MurmurTooth
Leah began her music career as a guitarist. At university she formed avant-metal band El Schlong, then spent the next 10 years touring around Australasia and Europe. She eventually settled in Berlin where she became fascinated by the possibilities of the recording, producing and mixing process as an extension of the creative songwriting process.
She built herself a home studio and started making music. She credits A Fault in This Machine to “DIY attitude, perseverance and Youtube tutorials”. The self-imposed isolation of being locked away by herself making the album resulted in a someone pensive documentation of the social distance people often drift towards in their 30s.
The album includes the singles Memory, Weak Knees and Rain Rain released as music videos.
Memory (23 January release): https://youtu.be/yAmHL1do0gg
Weak Knees (13 February release): https://youtu.be/9a7thZnyLt0
Rain Rain (5 March release): https://youtu.be/c-s5LiGxHSc
Discography:
A Fault in This Machine: https://murmurtooth.bandcamp.com/album/a-fault-in-this-machine
Dropping Like Flies: https://murmurtooth.bandcamp.com/album/dropping-like-flies
The Room EP: https://murmurtooth.bandcamp.com/album/the-room-ep
Other Music Videos:
Dropping Like Flies: https://youtu.be/eCz2y4TanZw
A Belly Full: https://youtu.be/jX4saF_oJV8
Knees Are Clean: https://youtu.be/ZCWlUyrGG6I
Links:
Website: http://murmurtooth.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/murmurtooth
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3I0D3_AqG0kgurhF82eZCQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murmurtooth2.0/
Bandcamp: https://murmurtooth.bandcamp.com/releases
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MurmurTooth
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/murmurtooth
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1AZNmOt1lv0x7ekTW1djGx
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/murmur-tooth/1126096526
Press:
“Leah Hinton isn’t your average singer-songwriter; these songs in memory of life and death are like a torch-noir bolt to the heart.” – Andrew Jervis, Bandcamp New and Notable
“A perfectly formed neo-gothic jewel.” - Analogue Trash
https://www.analoguetrash.com/blog/murmur-tooth-memory
“As always it is the combination of beauty and terror that Leah captures so elegantly, the tension and drifting atmosphere that floats about the listener as if they themselves were part of a chorus line from a gothic musical. Cold, deep, poignant and reflective but also gorgeous, ephemeral and eloquent. It’s what she does.” - Dancing About Architecture
https://dancingaboutarchitecture.info/2018/10/07/memory-murmur-tooth-reviewed-by-dave-franklin/
“Tightropes along the dark side of poetry...... Hinton weaves her magic and creates some of the most compelling art you’ll hear in 2018.” - Turtle Tempo
http://turtletempo.co.uk/ep-review-dropping-like-flies-murmur-tooth/
“A darkly cinematic endeavour.” - Indie Berlin
https://www.indieberlin.de/music/dropping-like-flies-murmur-tooth-darker-deeper-sound.html
“Wow. You know those moments of absolute clarity that hit you like a twenty ton land-train, the ones that allow you to glimpse, just for a nano-second, the innermost workings of the universe, granting you a moment of absolute calm and peace of mind? Yeah, well listening to Dropping Like Flies allows you to experience that moment over and over again, as it washes through ever atom of your being and whispers gloriously nihilistic Nick Cave and PJ Harvey inspired sweet nothings in your ear while gently stroking and probing at your cerebellum and lulling you into a state of musically induced joy.” - Mass Movement
http://massmovement.co.uk/?p=9718
“The band combine musical parameters to create a balance between light and dark, a characteristic you’d expect from a classically trained musician. Forget everything you know about grunge and give Murmur Tooth a listen.” - Songwriting Magazine
https://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/news/exclusive-the-room-ep-by-murmur-tooth/36599
“Tension, suspense, hooks, moods and some discomfort. Scratching at what’s just below the surface.” - NZ Musician Magazine
https://nzmusician.co.nz/music/murmur-tooth-room-ep/