London-based indie rock/psychedelic band
TOY have announced the release of their fourth studio album titled '
Happy In The Hollow'.
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.
Tracklist:
01. Sequence One
02. Mistake A Stranger
03.
Energy
04. Last Warmth Of The Day
05.
The Willo
06. Jolt Awake
07. Mechanism
08. Strangulation Day
09. You Make Me Forget Myself
10. Charlie’s House
11. Move Through The Dark
