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ToyMonger - The Nightvision [Deserted Village - 2007]

The nightvision is this two pieces debut album with having only one cassette release before and it’s a highly effective and eerier shot of drone craft, dingy sometimes aggravated electronics and guitar scapes bringing to mind the same sort of dread filled and doomed soaked grim looping and building atmospherics of the like of Skull Defekts and Wolf Eyes at their more claustrophobic and grim soundtrack like.

Each of the four tracks falls around about ten minute  mark  with each starting off slow, sinister and darkly compelling like a stranger beckoning you down strange dark corridor, but as they progress the pair of Gavin Prior (United Bible studies) and Andrew Fogarty (Bullets, Tremors) build and tighten the atmospheres to such an tense and at times quite freaky level. Giving a great feeling of apprehension, fear and atmosphere you could al most cut with a cut throat razor. They seem to using a mix of guitar, electronics, organ/ synth tones, voice tones and effects peddles to create their sound which while is very sinister and doomy is also quite darkly harmonic with swirling and drifting melodies ghostly slipping through all of the tracks. The tracks for the most part remain clean of percussive and rhythmic matter with only the last track showing only slight learning’s. Though you can hear connections with in their sound to the likes of Wolf Eyes, Skull Defekts and grim sound tracking, this very much has it’s own twisted and sinister personality which at times links into the feeling of abounded fairgrounds, murderess clowns and broken sinister look lines of old toys that of course ties in nicely to the projects name.

A fine, sinister and blackened debut album that really does worm its way under your skin with its oily harmonic dread and building tension/ grim atmospherics. If you enjoy any creepy and doom based electronics or blacked drone smothering you’ve got to check out ToyMonger.

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Roger Batty
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