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”.
Released: January 2019
Cat: TLV118
Label: Tough Love
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Tracklist
1 Sequence One2 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