Brisbane outfit Toy Balloon will release their debut album Toy Division on
November 8 through Lofly Records, and to celebrate will perform an east coast
launch tour throughout November.
Formed in 2007, Toy Balloon was
originally a fledgling two-piece made up by Nimai Etheridge’s uniquely melodic
wall-of-sound guitar and Greg Cooper’s beautiful sequenced electronic
compositions. The band have since matured into a four piece featuring Chloe
Cooper (Mr Maps) on key boards and Ben Green on drums.
The album was
recorded and mixed at the Lofly Hangar in Brisbane, a DIY performance space that
Toy Balloon has been an integral part of creating. Fostering emerging artists
and left-of-centre music, the Hangar acts as a performance space, recording
studio, and meeting place; and has resulted in a record with a rich, layered
sound reminiscent of New Order, Mogwai, Boards of Canada, and LCD
Soundsystem.
Catch Toy Balloon launch Toy Division at a venue near you
this Oct/ November.
TOY BALLOON TOUR DATES:
Brisbane- Thursday 29
October- The Zoo, Fortitude Valley w/ Moon Jog, Tin Can Radio and Doom
Doom.
Sydney- Wednesday 4 November- ‘Upstarts’ at Spectrum, Darlinghurst
w/ Convaire and Black Bear Brown Bear
Sydney- Thursday 5 November- Oxford
Arts Factory, Darlinghurst w/ World Champion and others
Melbourne-
Saturday 7 November- Pony, Melbourne w/ Love Connection and
Aoi
Melbourne- Sunday 8 November- El Joyero, Melbourne
Toy
Division is released November 6 on Lofly Records, with distribution through MGM.
Hardcore Thursday and Punk Sunday this week at 299! THURSDAY 22nd OCTOBER: The Storm Picturesque (ep launch), Signal The Firing Squad, Cross The Lips Of Grace, Torn Asunder, Headwound The Pony. SUNDAY 25th OCTOBER: Spermbirds (germany), Mid Youth Crisis, Scratch And Sniff, Team Dickhead, To The North
I have some new recordings up for download if you're interested. 'We Stop The Words From Flowing Out Of Our Mouths. Rage, Rage, Goodnight' is a two track release of just over half an hour of music, recorded in late September.
Come party with the bands and the DJ's at the OFFICIAL SOUNDS OF SPRING AFTER PARTY! DJ's Bzurk, Snowflake and Tripp will be DJ'ing all day on the TRASH stage at the festival, then go back to rock it at the afterparty with guest DJ's ABSYNTH (Sydney) and GLENN (The Butterfly Effect). There will be bands and celebrity guests, so don't miss it and make sure you get in early and check out the new and improved club 299 at 293-299 Brunswick Street.
Just letting you know that we've just uploaded our first studio recorded track, "Warm Star Fades". The track is going to be included on the next Starving Kids Records' "Have You Heard #6" sampler, which will be available to buy from our MySpace as soon as we get some copies, but for now you can hear it at www.myspace.com/soarsmusic
we will come very soon in australia fro a long tour, and hope that you will play with us... do you will play with la quiete in their next tour in australia? hope the best for you all!
P.S. have you received my message about the split?
Hi there) Thanks for being our friend! Download for free our new EP "Starring" - 1 song from it will be on FREAK drama soundtrack Welcome to our page!)) Cheers from Ukraine
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