As hard a band name to google as Girls, it would be understandable if Toy are possibly annoyed at getting constant comparisons to The Horrors, even if most of those are pretty damn complementary. Left Myself Behind is a psych pop epic, it has guitars that are played properly (as in, with very few notes and put through lots of pedals) and the final few minutes are a crescendo of Stereolab'esque modulations.
Together it gets a re-release by Heavenly on Jan 23d. Also known as the other day.
HVN233 - TOY 'Left Myself Behind' & 'Clock Chime' by heavenlyrecordings
It is important as a modern human being to not think in terms of genre when it comes to preference. Our lives and options have changed irrevocably through technology in the last ten years and are now far too expansive to justify hiding behind the woolliness of one thing. Championing one cause is for football fans, not music lovers.
Astronautica has done something very lovely with some minimal electronics, some grain, some pulses and they're even very kindly letting you listen to a whole album of it on Bandcamp. Fuck, do you remember MySpace? Do you remember when actual people, not bands, had MySpace pages? Do you remember how each and every one of those pages looked like a teenager's bedroom?
The above is a still from Secret Cinema. It finished on sunday so now I can talk about it. The Third Man came to life in a disused office/factory in Clerkenwell (where part of Batman Begins was filmed). I curated a bunch of live musicians to play in various nooks and crannies of the fictitional post war landscape and the whole thing went swimmingly. Below is a moody little youtube of the event made by my good friend Tom Haines - who also DJs as Hyena
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