Artist: My Toys Like Me
Title: Where We Are
Label: Dumb Angel
Genre: Electronic
Bitrate: 170kbit av.
Time: 00:44:05
Size: 56.32 mb
Rip Date: 2009-04-29
Str Date: 2009-05-11
01. Superpowers 3:58
02. Sick Couple 3:48
03. Sweetheart 3:33
04. Barnaby 3:40
05. All Over My Face 3:19
06. Grin & Wriggle 5:38
07. Making Fire 3:42
08. Skylights 4:25
09. Quiet Please 4:16
10. Bats 3:53
11. Young Lovers 3:53
Release Notes:
Re-imagining the beats and hooks of dance music's myriad genres, with
an obsessive eccentricity and a childlike abandon, my toys like me
release their debut album 'where we are' on dumb angel. with one of
dance music's unique new voices in frances noon, my toys like me have
fathomed their own distinctive brand of acidic disco-dub. from the
house keys, to the sub-bass rolls of trip-hop and dub, to crunching
synths and primitive drum 'n' bass, through to the blissed out brass
and organ of their downtime ballads, principal protagonists lazlo
legezer and frances noon have concocted a heady post-dance brew. the
urgent club sounds crop up on album opener and lead single superpowers,
a two-fingers-to-authority romp through 'my toys' twisted house;
'barnaby', the bands underground touchstone; the rave-funk of 'quiet
please' and the wonky bassline of 'skylights'. and while lazlo delights
in the re-invention of his dance music archives, noon provides an
endearingly bratish delivery to lyrics that veer from the confoundingly
abstract, to the astonishingly blunt. it is amidst the albums more
ambient, organic moments that the true versatility of my toys like me
is revealed. the sinister dub and mariachi brass of 'all over my face',
the fascinating storytelling of 'sick couple' and 'making fire', and
the adroit arrangement of production and organic sound on 'bats' and
their van morrison cover 'young lovers'. my toys like me's debut album
is a genre colliding construction of new era poptronica.