My Toys Like Me

• 1st May 2009

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 brass and organ of their downtime ballads, principal protagonists Lazlo Legezar and Frances Noon have concocted a heady post-dance brew.

The urgent club sounds crop up on album opener and lead single Superpowers, a two-fingers-to-authority romp through ‘My Toys’ twisted house; Barnaby, the bands underground touchstone; the rave-funk of Quiet Please and the ‘wonky’ bassline of Skylights. And while Lazlo delights in the re-invention of his dance music archives, Noon provides an endearingly 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.

07/05/09 – INSTORE PHONICA
21/05/09 – QUEEN OF HOXTON
29/05/09 – FUZZ CLUB SHEFFIELD
30/05/09 – 93FT EAST
26/06/09 – GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
28/06/09 – GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL