TOY – Dead & gone

When TOY dropped their first single back in December 2011, it was pretty devastating, ‘Left myself behind’ is a indie classic laced with shoegaze bedlam, the closing four minutes is a crescendo of white noise thrashing which has to be heard to be believed. They followed this with a near-perfect song; ‘Motoring’ which even has a dumb pop couplet ‘If you want to ride….we’ll take you for a ride” and throws in a modified steal of the ‘Daytripper’ riff.

This is the track that stood out among an album full of killers, live too, it’s a dirty lysergic laced psychedelic headfu*k of a trip. Eight minutes, it’s overbearing, edgy and suspicious; a vaguely Middle Eastern guitar riff breaks down into cutting swathes of obtrusive delicious dream-pop. 8.5/10

Chris Todd