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Released: Feb 20, 2013
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General Info

  • Genre: Powerpop / Progressive / Psychedelic

    Location Brussels, Be

    Profile Views: 44480

    Last Login: 12/13/2012

    Member Since 3/9/2009

    Website www.joyasatoy.com

    Record Label Cheap Satanism Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    "C'est venimeux, c'est drôle, c'est sombre, ça grince, c'est anguleux et implacable : Les Bruxellois de Joy as a Toy vous emmènent pour une virée au musée des cauchemars et des rêves hallucinés, dissimulant de vraies grandes beautés sous les monstruosités rythmiques et les délires sonores de leur musique. Soupirs langoureux de femmes vénéneuses et hurlements de tueurs psychopathes, Pour leur deuxième crime au royaume du disque pop, Joy as a Toy vous propose une visite guidée inspirée par l'univers kaléidoscopique du maitre de l'angoisse et de la série B, Dario Argento. Inutile de crier, de chercher une improbable sortie, d'essayer de vous échapper, d'appeler au secours : comme vous l'indique le titre « Dead as a Dodo » : vous êtes foutus ! Pour ce nouvel album, le power trio initial s'agrandit avec le tenebreux Pierre Vervloesem (X-legged Sally, Flat earth society) à la basse."................................................................................................................................... Behalve de backingband van Lyenn te zijn, hebben Gil Mortio (Pierre Vervloesem, Mud Flow), Clément Nourry (Alimentation Générale) en Jean-Phillipe De Gheest (Mauro Pawlowski, aMute) nog een project gemeenschappelijk. JOY AS A TOY maakt - in hun eigen woorden - "wasted beach boys rock 'n' roll with bad english accent". Of met andere woorden: een hybride van explosieve rock à la Deerhoof en de poetische melancholie van kleppers als Talking Heads en Robert Wyatt. Joy As A Toy deinst er ook niet voor terug om uit meer jazzy en psychedelische vaatjes te tappen, waardoor ze tot één van de meeste energieke rockbands uit het Brusselse bestempeld kunnen worden. (Les Ateliers claus - Brussel) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Naar eigen zeggen produceren ze vampire rock en tennis pop, wat al dadelijk illustreert dat deze Waalse broeders humor in huis hebben en zichzelf niet al te serieus nemen. Wij hoorden vooral Friends Of Dean Martinez in hun kamerjas bij het ochtendgloren krakend verse pistolets langsbrengen bij Ennio Morricone. Mike Patton die eindelijk het verzameld werk van John Barry onder handen neemt en daarmee niet langs toffe peer Pierre Vervloesem heen kan. Deze laatste zat dan ook niet toevallig achter de masteringtafel. Om maar te zeggen dat we Kim Clijsters graag eens een grand slam zouden zien winnen met 'Valparaiso' als soundtrack, terwijl ze haar tanden in Justine Henin haar welgevormde nek plaatst." (RIF RAF) ................................................................................................................................... We like dogs!Little ones,big ones,french ones,dutch ones,dirty and stinky ones,... Els likes dogs to!She's our occasional female (woof!) vibraphone player! Unfortunately she lives in Berlin and... since we don't get enough well payed gigs,we can not make her come over to Brussels...what a shame!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you miss Stereolab and Mr. Bungle—and I think we all do—then you owe it to yourself to give a listen to "Disco Dog", from Belgian threesome Joy as a Toy. The specters of those progressive pop geniuses loom over all three-and-a-half glorious minutes, from the angular start-stop rhythms, to the brassy freak-outs in the middle, to the vibraphones throughout which sound straight off Stereolab's Emperor Tomato Ketchup. "Disco Dog" is the first track off the band's debut album Valparaiso, out right now on Cheap Satanism Records. Stream the whole album for free here. P.S. What the hell is a "disco dog" anyway? The lyrics—alternately sung and barked, naturally—don't shed much light on this mystery. Neither does a Google search, even if it does reveal the term as an inexplicably popular brand name." 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  • Members

    Gil Mortio : guitar, barytone guitar, bass, vocals Clément Nourry : guitar, bass, vocals Jean-Philippe De Gheest : drums, vocals

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  • Sounds Like

    Wasted beach boys rock'n'roll with a bad english accent http://vimeo.com/40455859

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