catalogue

TOY

HAPPY IN THE HOLLOW (TOUGH LOVE RECORDS)

TOY - HAPPY IN THE HOLLOW 130004
format:
1 CD
release:
25.01.2019
label:
TOUGH LOVE RECORDS
item ID:
130004
barcode:
5055869506120
Happy In The Hollow is the fourth album from TOY, and their first for new label Tough Lough Records, it's unquestionably their most direct and propulsive album to date.

Recorded between their own home tape studios and mixed at Dan Carey's Studio B in South London, the album was entirely produced and mixed by the band.

Happy In The Hollow is entirely uncompromising: an atmospheric capturing of a state of mind that touches on Post Punk, electronic dissonance, acid folk and Krautrock.

Familiar qualities like metronomic rhythms, warping guitars, undulating synths and Tom's gentle, reedy vocals are all in there, but so is a greater emphasis on melody, a wider scope, and a combining of the reassuring and the sinister that is as unnerving as it is captivating.' TOY are: Tom Dougall (vocals / guitar), Dominic O'Dair (guitars), Maxim Barron (bass / vocals), Max Oscarnold (synths / modulations) & Charlie Salvidge (drums / vocals).

RIYL: The Horrors, Moon Duo, Wooden Shjips, Spiritualized, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dungen, Goat, Clinic.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. SEQUENCE ONE
  • 1.2. MISTAKE A STRANGER
  • 1.3. ENERGY
  • 1.4. LAST WARMTH OF THE DAY
  • 1.5. THE WILLO
  • 1.6. JOLT AWAKE
  • 1.7. MECHANISM
  • 1.8. STRANGULATION DAY
  • 1.9. YOU MAKE ME FORGET MYSELF
  • 1.10. CHARLIE'S HOUSE
  • 1.11. MOVE THROUGH THE DARK