| Toy / Join The Dots |
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| Album: | Join The Dots | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Toy | Added: | Feb 2014 | |
| Label: | Pias America | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2014-02-07 | Pull Date: | 2014-04-11 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 13 | Apr 6 | Mar 30 | Mar 23 | Mar 16 | Mar 9 | Mar 2 | Feb 23 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 08, 2016: | Life Aquatic Join The Dots | 4. | Feb 05, 2015: | The Sunset Life Join The Dots | |
| 2. | Jun 04, 2015: | The Final Sunset Join The Dots | 5. | Jan 01, 2015: | Meow: The Best Of 2014 Join The Dots | |
| 3. | May 07, 2015: | The Sunset Life Join The Dots | 6. | Oct 09, 2014: | The Sunset Life Fall Out Of Love |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2014-02-06 | ||
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In the wake of a previous band that disintegrated after one critically acclaimed but unreleased (?) album, this Brighton five-piece has quickly risen to the top of the current psych-rock pack. This album (TOY’s second) splits the difference between perfect pop and electrifying psych, and the music never ceases to rivet. On a plane with Tame Impala, The Horrors, The Chameleons, the best shoegaze. This is righteous. Five meows and lots of exclamation points. Honestly, every track is superb, but 4 just kills it. No FCCs detected. 1. (7:09)—Instrumental. Medium-slow, sedate, eminently danceable. Spacy synths, insistent bass. Rides on one note. Car-chase psych. 2. (4:43)—Mid-tempo. Swirling, jangly, jammy dream pop. Gorgeous. 3. (4:11)—Mid-tempo. Heavier but still gauzy. Deerhunter-ish. 4. **(7:59)—Fast. A trippy pop song embedded in a kraut-psych-noise odyssey to hypnotic heaven. YES!!! 5. (5:04)—Mid-tempo. Fuzzy, sugary, poppy. Trippy coda. 6. (4:33)—Medium-fast. The poppiest song. Warm guitars, shoegaze textures. 7. (4:05)—Fast, driving. Restrained first half, noisier second half. RIYL Captured Tracks. 8. (4:09)—Medium-fast, slick. Liquid guitars. Soft, fluttery synths. 9. (5:09)—Starts as a heavy medium-slow plod, speeds up and rides the motorik spaceship. Heavily processed vocals. 10. (4:07)—Starts slow, skyward, particularly reminiscent of Tame Impala. Like the previous track, this speeds up halfway through. 11. (9:53)—Medium-fast. Starts in lush krautrock mode. Shifts gears four minutes in, builds in intensity and rides into guitar paradise. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Conductor | 6. | Endlessly | |||
| 2. | You Won't Be The Same | 7. | It's Been So Long | |||
| 3. | As We Turn | 8. | Left To Wander | |||
| 4. | Join The Dots | 9. | Too Far Gone To Know | |||
| 5. | To A Death Unknown | 10. | Frozen Atmosphere | |||
| 11. | Fall Out Of Love | |||||