Toy - Happy in the Hollow (Blue Vinyl)

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. Talking about 'Sequence One', Toy say: 'it's 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. 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.' 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