Happy In The Hollow | Colored Vinyl : Blue

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. 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,' say

Tracks

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

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Toy
Release Date: 25 January 2019
Genre: Alternative
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Distributor: Rocket Group