For the best part of the last decade, Kevin Purdy has been a sonic enfant terrible – capable of creating the majestical, he’s shadowed success through a variety of guises, but it’s alongside Sir Robbo and John Maddox as Tooth that Purdy would appear to be most comfortable.

For their third album, Mudlarking, the trio have expanded their horizons – stretched over the course of two CDs and eighteen tracks, this is a musical journey in extremis. A variety of additional musicians dot the double album; FourPlay add strings alongside Pip Branson from Sidewinder, members of fellow experimentalists Prop appear on marimba and glockenspiel, Metabass and Breath’s Rory Toomey adds drums and percussion.

In short, it makes for a complex and invigorating clash of sounds, from the opening rhythmic throb of “Paris Shades” on the first disc to the altered dynamics of “Shift”, which takes its title on in a literal sense, moving and shuddering throughout with Floyd-like guitar and dynamics to the fore. On the second disc, “The Marketplace” leads off as a vocal track featuring Daevid Allen (who also plays fuzz guitars on “Avoiding the Road to Recovery” and “Harmony Brew”, which is named perhaps in reference to Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew). Elsewhere, the likes of Four Tet are referenced, but never copied.

Tooth act in much the same way as fellow Sydney electro-freaks theHEAD, in that the sonic experimentations are always interesting but the real key to the sound of Mudlarking is the combination of melody within the confines of its obtuse structures. More organic than those chaps, Tooth bring together elements of prog, Krautrock, psychedelia, and other sounds besides to create a hybrid sound that is not quite like anything else.