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LA RECENSIONE

Misckey, did you review the Toys? Let us read:

"...the band has its own process for setting up hallucinations: a scene left to a martial rhythm with a kraut flavor and shoegaze-like play of feedback and assorted dazzling from guitars and keyboards to create an amniotic environment, particularly suited for organizing afternoon tea in some sharpian dimension. They prefer to immerse the poppy vocals of a dark voice, not too prominently, so as to add psych-pop colors to the palette, perhaps hinting at a love for the Rain Parade.

When listening to "Conductor," the first instrumental track, one certainly finds distant echoes of "One Of These Days" in their ears, due to the metronomic bass on the same note. But on the Trullallazzi page dedicated to the Toys, it states: if Floydian winds blow from their music, they are Barrettian winds…"

… Assurdino suggested reading, for the review to make sense, one word every ten, remember Misckey? Let's try it! Maybe we'll even find it in yours…

"Small recharges of active principle, strategically located, the Toys, quintessentially English Indian wizards, refine the potion compared to the first album. An edition of the record with a horrendous yet functional cover to the music. The Oscar for the best track goes to the title track: 2012 pulsations, probably less, of a rhythmically rigorous bass that finds the drums by its side, a square engine that transports the noise musings, the black holes, the skewed melodies, the letters of Berlicche … no, not these … prepared by the other musicians, relying on a remarkable effects arsenal. Overall, I believe the first four tracks and "Fall Out of Love" stand out. There are halts to the overall rhythmic engine, springs indicated for a bit more variety."

Well, … Miskey, in the end I didn't understand anything. Bye, see you at V1