Description
Label Review.
2016 album.
Our Overview.
Toy release their third album, titled Clear Shot on Heavenly Recordings.
Produced by David Wrench, It’s the bands most coherent and confident album to date; lushly cinematic, shot through with their most expressive melodies thus far and coated with a ‘sheen’ courtesy of Chris Coady (Beach House, Smith Westerns, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), who mixed the album in LA with some of the reverbs and vocal processors used on Purple Rain, across the 10-tracks strands of ideas appear, sink and re-emerge in an almost modal jazz manner. Clear Shot sees TOY working both in bigger colours and more minutely crafted detail, achieving an altogether higher level of artistry than before.
The new record follows the bands self titled debut in 2012 and their second release ‘Join The Dots’ in 2013. ‘Clear Shot’ is now released. Ahead of the release, Stereogum premiered a new track ‘Fast Silver’ (lucky them, and they reported): “Their new album, Clear Shot, the group’s third studio LP…is led by “Fast Silver,” a playful mid-tempo trip that balances brooding overcast with punchy keyboard motifs. Vocalist Tom Dougall’s moan pushes through the band’s hazy atmospherics, punctuated by meandering guitar and flickering percussion. It’s deliriously delicious grunge-tinted acid-pop, loosely performed, yet impeccably assembled.”
Pure, honest, open indie, at times transfixing you as they trip through vocals, rifts and chords with a child like abandon and indulgent joy. We love it!