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  • TOY - Happy in the Hollow

    TOY - Happy in the Hollow

    £17.99 GBP was

    Limited to 300 hand-numbered copies
    180gm 'argyle green' vinyl
    With exclusive bonus 12", feat. remixes from Sonic Boom and Cosey Fanni Tutti

    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 Love 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

    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”.

    Release date: 25th January 2019

    Tracklisting:
    1. Sequence One
    2. Mistake A Stranger
    3. Energy
    4. Last Warmth Of The Day
    5. The Willo
    6. Jolt Awake
    7. Mechanism
    8. Strangulation Day
    9. You Make Me Forget Myself
    10. Charlie’s House
    11. Move Through The Dark
    Bonus 12"
    A. The Willo (Sonic Boom Remix)
    AA. Strangulation Day (Cosey Fanni Tutti Remix)