imaginary trip sounds

De Londres vem o projecto My Toys Like Me, formados por Frances Noon nas vozes, Lazlo Legezer, Charlie Boud e Alfonso Pisanelli no resto da maquinaria. Lançam este ano o seu álbúm de estreia Where we are. A voz de Frances Noon parece de criança doce que se deixa levar muito naturalmente pela electrónica de serviço. Nesta sonoridade electro-pop cabem outras influências que vão desde o trip-hop, ao dub e até um cheirinho a drum and bass e downtempo. Há pepitas de guitarra, teclados e sintetizadores que por vezes parecem harmoniosamente descontrolados. Pode ainda notar-se em algumas músicas uns sons de brinquedos, que estes adultos utilizaram para adornar a sua obra. O texto seguinte, que eu fui buscar não sei onde, descreve mais um pouco a banda e o seu som.

"Re-imagining the beats and hooks of dance music's myriad genres, withan 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 brassand 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 super powers, a two-fingers-to-authority romp through 'my toys' twisted house; 'barnaby', the bands underground touchstone; the rave-funk of 'quietplease' and the wonky bassline of 'skylights'. and while lazlo delight sin the re-invention of his dance music archives, noon provides anendearingly 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."

My Toys Like Me - All over my face

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