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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

On Our iPod

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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T.O.Y.S
EP2 Odd Box Records

Article written by Ged M - Jan 2, 2013

T.O.Y.s are a trio made up of ex-Manhattan Love Suicides (Adam John Miller and Eddy Lines) and an Anguish Sandwich (David Kitchen). Their space-age pop races along on pulsing waves of baby Yamaha keyboard and fuzzy bass, while the drums provide rocket-up-the-arse propulsion on the Stereolabby ‘Dopplegänger’ and the melodic Krautrock-inspired ‘Make Luv’. Inevitably, six tracks in this format becomes a little samey but the likes of the super-rhythmic throbpop ‘Mirror’, which sounds like the band falling down flights of stairs but still playing as they do so, makes it well worth you swivelling your earflaps in their direction for a selective sampling.

Links:
http://toystheband.bandcamp.com/
http://oddboxrecords.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/TOYS/172182072818345#!/pages/TOYS/172182072818345