Toy - Clear Shot (LP)

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Toy'€™s third album features an esoteric set of influences - Radiophonic Workshop, Comus, the scores of Bernard Herrmann, John Barry and Ennio Morricone Fairport, COUM, Acid House, Incredible String Band, The Langley Schools Project, The Wicker Man soundtrack and even the direction behind Electric Eden, Rob Young's book about the development of folk music in the U.K.

Somehow, Clear Shot finds the Brighton outfit coalescing these strands into their most coherent and confident record to date; a lushly cinematic set filled with some of their most expressive melodies thus far and coated with a sheen courtesy of producer David Wrench and mixer Chris Coady.