TOY, Live at The Brudenell

Brudenell presents...

TOY
+ special guests.. TBA

17.2.19 | £12.00 Advance | 19:30 Doors
Tickets on sale Friday 26th October, at 10am

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http://www.thebandtoy.com/

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TOY
have announced details of their new album, Happy In The Hollow, which
is released on Friday January 25th 2019. Their fourth album, 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.

The vinyl
pressing of the album is available in several different variants - the
first, only available via the Tough Love webstore, includes a bonus 12"
featuring remixes by Sonic Boom and Cosey Fanni Tutti and is limited to
300 copies. The second is in conjunction with the Dinked indie store
collective, and features alternative artwork and a 'secret 7"'. Finally,
a third version will be available exclusively from Rough Trade, and
features an alternative 'secret 7"'.

Having recently released a
limited 12” featuring ‘The Willo’ and ‘Energy’, the band have today
shared the latest track from the album, ‘Sequence One’.

Talking about the track, Toy say:

‘Sequence One’ is about running through a war zone of post apocalyptic
proportions with your significant other. It was one of the first tracks
we wrote when we started making Happy In The Hollow. We wrote it on the
5th Of April.

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.'

The sound has without doubt expanded — and grown more confident — in part because
this is the first album for which Toy has become a self-sufficient five-person unit doing everything for themselves.

“Each song was a blank canvas,” says Maxim. “Producers inevitably develop
their own patterns over time, right down to certain drum sounds. We were
starting from scratch and it felt very creative as a result. It’s an
album we feel deeply connected to”.

Finally, having recently played a packed-out show at the Shacklewell Arms in London, where they
premiered a number of the new album tracks, the band have announced a
run of headline shows in the new year.