Toy Stream forthcoming release ‘Clear Shot’

Toy Stream forthcoming release 'Clear Shot'

TOY have shared their new album Clear Shot, ahead of its release on Heavenly Recordings October 28th, release, via NPR. The album follows their debut self-titled 2014 release.

Splitting their time between Tom Dougall and bassist Maxim Barron’s place in New Cross and Dominic O’Dair’s flat in Walthamstow, where they set up a makeshift studio and laid down the early album demos, Clear Shot began to take shape in the first half of 2015.

Taking inspiration from an esoteric blend – Radiophonic Workshop, Comus, the scores of Bernard Herrmann, John Barry and Ennio Morricone Fairport, COUM, Acid House, Incredible String Band, The Langley Schools Project, The Wicker Man soundtrack and even the direction behind Electric Eden, Rob Young’s book about the development of folk music in the U.K. – by the time they entered Eve Studios in Stockport in October 2015 with producer David Wrench, the band were clear about the direction the album should take.

“The result is a lushly cinematic, shot through with their most expressive melodies thus far and coated with a ‘sheen’ courtesy of Chris Coady (Beach House, Smith Westerns, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), who mixed the album in LA with some of the reverbs and vocal processors used on Purple Rain, across the 10-tracks strands of ideas appear, sink and re-emerge in an almost modal jazz manner”.

Recorded with producer David Wrench towards the end of 2015 at Eve Studio, the track listing of the 10-track album is as follows:

Clear Shot

Another Dimension

Fast Silver

I’m Still Believing

Clouds That Cover The Sun

Jungle Games

Dream Orchestrator

We Will Disperse

Spirits Don’t Lie

Cinema

TOY are: Tom Dougall (vocals / guitar), Dominic O’Dair (guitars), Maxim Barron (bass / vocals), Max Claps (synths / modulations) & Charlie Salvidge (drums / vocals).

Fri 28 Oct 2016 Rough Trade East London, UK
Sat 29 Oct 2016 Bime Live 2016 Barakaldo, Spain
Fri 18 Nov 2016 Exchange Bristol, UK
Sat 19 Nov 2016 The Haunt Brighton, UK
Sun 20 Nov 2016 Engine Rooms Southampton, UK
Tue 22 Nov 2016 The Courtyard, Rainbow Venues Birmingham, UK
Wed 23 Nov 2016 King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut Glasgow, UK
Thu 24 Nov 2016 The Magnet Liverpool, UK
Fri 25 Nov 2016 Riverside Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Sat 26 Nov 2016 The Wardrobe Leeds, UK
Mon 28 Nov 2016 Rock City Basement Nottingham, UK
Tue 29 Nov 2016 Waterfront Studio Norwich, UK
Wed 30 Nov 2016 Electric Brixton London, UK
Sat 03 Dec 2016 TRIX Centrum voor Muziek Antwerp, Belgium
Mon 05 Dec 2016 Badehaus – Szimpla Musiksalon Berlin, Germany
Tue 06 Dec 2016 Blue Shell Cologne, Germany
Wed 07 Dec 2016 Paradiso Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thu 08 Dec 2016 Nouveau Casino Paris, France

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