Happy in the hollow

"TOY have always dabbled in the sinister, but the quintet's fourth album, Happy in the Hollow, is their most wholehearted embrace of ominous murk. If their last LP, Clear Shot, was a moderately dark album, then Happy in the Hollow is near pitch-black with just a small lit torch to navigate through the darkness. While their previous albums leaned on a mix of psychedelia, krautrock and shoegaze, their latest full-length is much more fluid-injecting a bit of wiry post-punk, dialing back some of the indulgent psychedelic pastiches, and underscoring the sublime hooks and melodies that made them such a fascinating group in the first place".

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"Happy in The Hollow is their most satisfying work to date, doubly notable for its being the first record the band have produced themselves ... Overall, HITH is a mellow, exploratory affair, with drum machines, acoustic guitars and bottleneck slides being dreamily deployed at key moments to break up the Krautrock churn. It was clear after their previous album that TOY needed to shake things up a little - nothing drastic, just a slight reboot - and by doing so on Happy In The Hollow, they find themselves right back on track".

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