My Toys Like Me - Where We Are

01. Superpowers
02. Sick Couple
03. Sweetheart
04. Barnaby
05. All Over My Face
06. Grin & Wriggle
07. Making Fire
08. Skylights
09. Quiet Please
10. Bats
11. Young Lovers

Re-imagining the beats and hooks of dance music's myriad genres, with an obsessive eccentricity and a childlike abandon, my toys like me release their debut album 'where we are' on dumb angel. with one of dance music's unique new voices in frances noon, my toys like me have fathomed their own distinctive brand of acidic disco-dub. from the house keys, to the sub-bass rolls of trip-hop and dub, to crunching synths and primitive drum 'n' bass, through to the blissed out brass and organ of their downtime ballads, principal protagonists lazlo legezer and frances noon have concocted a heady post-dance brew. the urgent club sounds crop up on album opener and lead single superpowers, a two-fingers-to-authority romp through 'my toys' twisted house; 'barnaby', the bands underground touchstone; the rave-funk of 'quiet please' and the wonky bassline of 'skylights'. and while lazlo delights in the re-invention of his dance music archives, noon provides an endearingly bratish delivery to lyrics that veer from the confoundingly abstract, to the astonishingly blunt. it is amidst the albums more
ambient, organic moments that the true versatility of my toys like me is revealed. the sinister dub and mariachi brass of 'all over my face', the fascinating storytelling of 'sick couple' and 'making fire', and the adroit arrangement of production and organic sound on 'bats' and their van morrison cover 'young lovers'. my toys like me's debut album is a genre colliding construction of new era poptronica.