TOY at London’s Shacklewell Arms (Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)
TOY are getting ready to return with a fourth studio album and have shared two new, noticably opposing songs entitled The Willo and Energy.
These will be out on 12″ vinyl tomorrow via their newly-signed-to label Tough Love, and there’s details too of a live outing at the Shacklewell Arms in London on September 28th. The LP is planned for January 2019 and will be their follow-up to 2016’s Clear Shot, on which Live4ever concluded: ‘For a band so flagrantly marinated in the past, there is an aura of progress, in the dark or not‘:
“Opening track A Clear Shot is a song of two halves. Uncomfortable chords are away hacked at for a good while before Dougall laments like a disinterested Morrissey about the streets below being “a town I used to know”. Frenetic drumming eventually lifts you from the listlessness as the latter part surges towards a raging finish.”
“Keyboards on Fast Silver gently jump and trickle, reminiscent of The Doors, and the snake charm wriggle of Jungle Games is as narcotic as George Harrison on the primetime summer of loving Blue Jay Way.”
