Mouth to Mouth by The Levellers

Mouth to Mouth, the Levellers' 1997 album on China Records, followed Zeitgeist and found the Brighton folk rock crew, named after the radical Levellers political movement, still mixing fiddle-driven jigs with a punk's sense of grievance. Jon Kelly produced it.

The engine is the same one that had carried them since 1988: Mark Chadwick singing and playing guitar, Jeremy Cunningham on bass, Charlie Heather on drums, Jon Sevink sawing away at the violin, and Simon Friend on guitar and mandolin. "What a Beautiful Day" is the song that bounced off the record and onto the countdowns, a stomping singalong from a band that always sounded best with a field full of people shouting along. One Way of Life came next.

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