Toy Monsoon and the multi-shaped psychedelic rock fusions of "Clouds"

 

"tattered clothes and broken nose / we go on / headed nowhere / just worshipping the clouds..."

The punchy melancholy and resolute starry eyed exuberance of "Clouds" by Boston based indie rock psych leaning Toy Monsoon doesn't move in straight lines. Much like the emotional slack line balancing of youth, there is a wonderful amount of gradients to their sound expressed in surprising guitar attacks against indie rock swinging intricacies. When the song comes off a free wheeling lead strike and falls right into jazz dips it surprise and works and when it ramps up into psych rock eruptions it all feels right and gloriously tumultuous, again, like youth itself. Appreciate the original musicianship, the rock solid anchoring drums and bass, the forays into what feels (to me) like songwriting that may have blossomed from cross generational seeds, from 70's classic and garden rock, from 90's post punk, from early aughts surf punk / desert rock and more. 

Digging the narrative, the cinema of it all and what feels like innate songwriting.

From LINER NOTES:

[Brothers Jeff and Andy Abbott started Toy Monsoon in October 2021 and were later joined by guitarists Niall O’Keefe and Matt Lillie. The group is in their infancy and growing a cult following around the Boston music scene. Their debut album Mad Honey is expected to release in Summer 2024.] 

-Robb Donker Curtius  

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://toymonsoon.com/

https://open.spotify.com/track/6TlnJDrVm5nL45mddVnITd

https://www.instagram.com/toymonsoon/


Toy Monsoon is a Boston-based indie rock band balancing guitar-driven melodic rock with psychedelic, experimental sounds. Brothers Jeff and Andy Abbott started Toy Monsoon in October 2021 and were later joined by guitarists Niall O’Keefe and Matt Lillie. The group is in their infancy and growing a cult following around the Boston music scene. Their debut album Mad Honey is expected to release in Summer 2024.

Toy Monsoon, Boston, indie rock, rock fusion, alt rock, psychedelic rock, Brothers Jeff and Andy Abbott, debut album "Mad Honey" this summer, "Clouds",