Blog: Song, by Toad

It has a lot in common with Ringo Deathstarr, this, right down to being almost brilliant, but just a little too much on the patchy side for me to be entirely unreserved in my praise. It's not what I had expected, either.  From previous work I think I was expecting a very hipster-friendly wall of fuzzy guitars and buried vocals.  These things are present, of course (I mean, the band do have 'crystal' in their name) but there are still quite a lot of elements I wasn't expecting. The vocals have an odd touch of flatness [...]

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