Name: Toy
Brand: A Giant Dog

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Bonus disc: No

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mrg592lp

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The LP edition of Toy is housed in a full-colour, heavyweight cardstock inner sleeve that includes lead singer Sabrina Ellis' handwritten lyrics on one side and a photo of the band on the other. The …

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-08-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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673855059211

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

mrg592cd

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The CD is housed in a digipak containing a full-colour, double-sided foldout mini-poster that features the handwritten lyrics and a photo of the band.

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

A Giant Dog

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Merge Records

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan, it started as a platform to release music from their band Superchunk and their friends' creations. Over the years, Merge Records has grown to include talented artists from all over the world, with some of their records even reaching the top of the Billboard music charts.
With its headquarters nestled in Durham, North Carolina, Merge Records has become a renowned name in the music industry. The label was established by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan back in 1989 with a vision to share their own musical endeavors as well as support fellow musicians within their circle.
What began as a humble endeavor quickly flourished into something much greater. Today, Merge Records boasts an impressive roster of artists spanning various genres and backgrounds. From indie rock to experimental pop, *Superchunk* paved the way for other talented musicians to join forces under this esteemed label's umbrella.

Toy, the fourth LP from A Giant Dog and their second for Merge, shows 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 the recorded debut of Daniel Blanchard on drums. 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 fuck-ups, fears, lusts, and addictions feel universal. While they have always given voice to the weirdos and creeps—showing that their peccadilloes and peculiarities are much more deep-seated and widespread they dig even deeper on Toy. “I feel I’ve revealed more in this album than ever before,” Sabrina confesses.

The band recorded Toy with Grammy-winning engineer Stuart Sikes (Loretta Lynn, Cat Power, The White Stripes, Reigning Sound), and singer / songwriter / guitarist/wildman Cashen produced it. "Andrew as producer makes a lot of sense," Sabrina says. "He 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 rangey album." Toy is also sonically huge, pulling from a range of influence s as diverse as Tinariwen and Thin Lizzy.

CD - The CD is housed in a digipak containing a full-colour, double-sided foldout mini-poster that features the handwritten lyrics and a photo of the band.

LP - The LP edition of Toy is housed in a full-colour, heavyweight cardstock inner sleeve that includes lead singer Sabrina Ellis' handwritten lyrics on one side and a photo of the band on the other. The outer jacket features AGD cover model Jennifer, created by singer / guitarist Andrew Cashen.

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