Ally Carnwath 

Toy: Join the Dots – review

Toy's second album has its moments of blissed-out cosmic ambition, but too many longueurs between them, writes Ally Carnwath
  
  


The London quintet installed lighting rigs in the studio when recording their debut album, to help them capture the feel of their live shows. The billowing feedback and the extended jams that bookend their second suggest a similar aspiration but it's only when hazy melodies begin to pierce the fog that their psychedelic rock strikes the right balance between hooky immediacy and cosmic ambition. A blissed-out synth riff gives direction to the dazed peregrinations of Left to Wander; languid harmonies decorate Frozen Atmosphere. But a desire to over-elaborate elsewhere leads to some spacey longueurs.

 

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