Toy Car release debut album with life-affirming FISHES!
Liverpool alt-rock newcomers, Toy Car share sincere reminder to live life to the fullest…
FISHES
"Equal parts gritty and intense"
- 1883 Mag
"Irresistible and raucous, offering a riveting listening experience" - Earmilk
Toy Car - Fishes
From the debut album Cream – OUT NOW
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After a whirlwind of festival appearances and the fizz of national radio attention, Liverpool-based emotive, alt-rock four-piece, Toy Car return with an elaborate and determined new single, Fishes, lifted from their highly anticipated debut album Cream – OUT NOW.
Following electrifying sets at Y Not Festival and the Isle of Wight Festival, Toy Car have carved their name onto the list of the UK alternative scene’s ones to watch, offering soul-bearing lyricism reminiscent of Wunderhorse and a natural drift into the stadium-sized choruses alongside The 1975. With support from BBC Radio 1, Radio X, Earmilk, and a sync feature on hit domestic TV series, Made in Chelsea, the band have proven themselves as worth of media and public attention as a band constructing songs wrought with emotion, whether in hope, sorrow or elation.
Produced and mixed by Ben Harper (The Mysterines, The Zutons) at Liverpool’s iconic Motor Museum Studios, Cream’s ten tracks capture the raw urgency, social edge, and big-room intentions that have set such high expectations around Toy Car. It’s a record built on stadium-sized riffs, hook-laden choruses and lines that hit like confessions shouted through a megaphone.
At the heart of a sense of deep honesty that pervades the album is Fishes, picked out as a celebratory, release day single. The band unveils it as a soaring, emotional alt-rock anthem built for the long nights winter and the long days of summer to come.
“’Fishes’ is a confession. It’s someone asking for help,” says frontman Shaun Hough. “The other character is down to interpretation, but Fishes comes from a point of ‘if people start talking, things can get better.’ It’s a pretty blunt reminder to live life, because we don’t know what’s waiting just around the corner.”
It’s Toy Car’s blend of high-energy alt-rock and lyrical vulnerability, drawing from influences like Cage the Elephant, The Strokes, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, that has made them a must-see live band. Translating that to the studio has been a challenge the band has proven themselves equal to and Cream’s previous singles, including Thylacine and Time Flies, have offered as much energy as introspection. For the band, getting it right and getting their message across has been a matter of confronting audiences as much as comforting them.
“Lyrically, ‘Cream’ is about growing up and finding your place in a world full of noise and opinions,” adds Hough. “It’s a rollercoaster, there’s something for everyone here. This record is about frustration with ourselves, with the idea that things get better just because you want them to. We didn’t want to play it safe; we wanted to challenge the room.”
Earlier this year, Toy Car hosted a sold-out single-launch event at Dead Air Records, uniting their growing community of fans for an intimate first listen. With Cream dropping onto playlists, the band completed a recent run of UK-wide dates with a special album-launch show at Rough Trade Liverpool last Friday.
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