Clear Shot
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Sometimes you have to make the album that comes to you, not the one you thought you were making. TOY felt like producing an electronic recor...
On their third album overall and first since 2013's Join the Dots, the British band TOY don't change around the formula that they've worked hard to cultivate since their formation in 2010.
Brighton, it’s been noted, is home to many a great musician. Royal Blood, The Kooks and Rizzle Kicks (yes, them) — to name a few. But within
'Clear Shot' by Toy, album review Jake Fox. The full-length comes out October 28th, via Heavenly Recordings. Toy, play October 28th, in London, UK.
Toy’s 2012 eponymous debut and 2014 follow-up, Join the Dots, found them thrillingly aligning the motorik tug of krautrock to post-punk and psychedelia.
There's an eeriness about this record that comes of it being so very perfectly anachronistic. TOY have formerly mined various parts of experimental rock history, notably Krautrock, and on their collaboration with Natasha “Bat For Lashes” Khan, some wild psychedelic rock from all corners of the planet. And certainly you can hear the chug of 1970s Dusseldorf sublimated into the grooves here on their third album – but the overwhelming sense is that this record exists somewhere around 1988 or 1989, back when indie truly meant indie.