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ARTIST A Giant Dog - TITLE Toy Toy, the fourth LP from A Giant Dog and their second for Merge, captures the Austin quintet at the height of their powers. A solid year of road-dogging and woodshedding has made the band tighter than ever, the charging dynamo of Andrew Cashen and Andy Bauer's guitars in lockstep with the primal chug of the rhythm section, Graham Low on bass and Daniel Blanchard on drums, in the latter's recorded debut. Singer Sabrina Ellis turns in another masterful performance, in equal parts brash, defiant, vulnerable, and raw. - Lyrically, Sabrina and Andrew have a gift for making their personal frustrations and F**k-ups, fears, lusts, and addictions feel universal. While they have always given voice to the weirdos and creeps, they dig even deeper on Toy. InchI feel I've revealed more in this album than ever before,Inch Sabrina confesses. - The band recorded Toy with Grammy-winning engineer Stuart Sikes (Loretta Lynn, Cat Power, The White Stripes, Reigning Sound), with Cashen producing it. InchAndrew as producer makes a lot of sense,Inch Sabrina says. InchHe composes the songs and knows better than anyone what they should sound like in the end. With him at the helm, we've arrived at a raw, truthful, risky, and rangy album.Inch Album Tracks 1. Get Away 2. Fake Plastic Trees 3. Bendover 4. Toy Gun 5. Lucky Ponderosa 6. Photograph 1. Roller Coaster 2. Angst in My Pants 3. Tongue Tied 4. Hero for the Weekend 5. Making Movies 6. Night Terror 7. Survive
