Chris Hetherington, Natalie Ferdinand, Brendan Foley, Jason Elliot and Dave Ang.
Influences
The Clash, Talking Heads, You Am I, Screamfeeder, Rocket Science, Not From There, Liars, Oneida, Les Savvy Fav, The Pixies, Bumblebeez, Spy vs Spy, Midnight Oil, The Cure, Gary Numan, Brisbane indie bands, My Disco, LCD Sound System, Architecture In Helsinki, Hunz, Morphine, Divinyls, PJ Harvey, Regurgitator, Battles, Blur, The Beatles, The Doors, and Bob Baker.
Sounds Like
Talking Heads, Prinzhorn Dance School, LCD Sound System, Rocket Science, The Cure, You Am I, International Noise Conspiracy, Liars.
This is The Slow Push. They make music that wants to make you move, to make you dance in spasms, to make you medicated. Their rythms are wonderfully stiff. They make the kind of music that only hipless, pastey white caucasions can pull off. They rock in short, sharp, furiously schizophrenic style.Their sounds are pleasantly jaded. Their debut album "We Blame The Overachievers" can be purchased here...
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.
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