TOY announce covers album and 2 special November shows

TOY have announced a new eight-track covers album, featuring their own interpretation of artists such as The Stooges, Nico, The Troggs, and more which have inspired the band.

Titled ‘Songs of Consumption’, the record will be released on November 15 via Tough Love Records, and is preceded by 'Fun City', the first track to be taken from the record, which was originally recorded by Soft Cell.

The self-produced record features:

1. Down On The Street (The Stooges)
2. Follow Me (Amanda Lear)
3. Sixty Forty (Nico)
4. Cousin Jane (The Troggs)
5. Fun City (Soft Cell)
6. Lemon Incest (Charlotte Gainsbourg & Serge Gainsbourg)
7. Always On My Mind (B.J. Thomas)
8. A Dolls House (John Barry)

The band say of the album:

"'Songs of Consumption' sonically is a continuation and development of the themes conceived on 'Happy In The Hollow' and it will show people where we are going towards musically. The DIY approach was explored further utilising more of the electronic elements that we touched upon before. Drum machines, stripped down arrangements and rudimentary production give a primitive sound that we thought suited the choice of songs. Some of the songs have very big sounding production, so we wanted to experiment with them by going in a different direction.

"Music is consumed voraciously now whereas these songs came from a time when the song was of the most important thing and that's what was appreciated. Stripping them back to the essence of what they are was also something we wanted to explore. Also, we wanted to make a covers record with songs by people that influenced us in the past few years and it’s as much about the way they dealt with their ideas, and how they put themselves in uncomfortable situations in order to make something that in the end is simple. It’s a homage to the spirit of these people, that helped us to untangle ourselves from our inherent complicated nature and create a new space where we can exist."



Additionally, the band have announced a couple of special shows next month.

Playing under the banner of ‘Hollowed Out – A night of strange sighting and unhabitual ritual’, the shows will see them re-imagining songs from 'Happy In The Hollow'.

In Manchester on November 9 at Band on the Wall, they will be joined by Mutabase and a DJ set from Sofie K; while in London on November 15 at Studio 9294, they will be joined by AV artist Sculpture, live performances from The Thelma Death Stare and Ducasse, DJ sets from Cherrystones and Sheet Noise and live visuals from Daisy Dickinson.