The follow-up to 2016's Clear Shot, was entirely produced and mixed by the band, and recorded between their own home tape studios and mixed at Dan Carey’s Studio B in South London. It will be out on January 25th via Tough Love Records. Pre-order your copy here.
According to the press release, 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”..
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for their hazy new single "Sequence One" below.
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