Dead as a Dodo, by Joy As A Toy

Dead as a Dodo

by Joy As A Toy

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Isaac Luna This album isn't the soundtrack to a thriller movie. This album is a thriller movie. Favorite track: Mechanical Love.

Sand The band got the idea to mix Horror movies musics&sounds to Pop&Rock with a light touch of old school. The result is just brilliant and incredibly catchy despite numerous experimental or weird bits. It's less ambitious than Goblin best stuff but a lot more catchy and more easy to listen.

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1.	Dead as a Dodo 04:13		buy track
2.	Mechanical Love 05:35	lyrics	buy track
Empty bottle fl ying in my kitchen Pink Flashlights pulsing in my head Shiny UFO landing in my garden Female Creature, standing ahead My mechanical wife makes mechanical love aaaoh aaaoh She came down from the stars She wants to satisfy Strange desires
3.	Subway to your Brain 03:58	lyrics	buy track
Pull a knife Design a Female chest Man and wife To their eternal rest Cold and Brave Let my heart be still Any man can kill
4.	Better Lock your Door 00:48		buy track
5.	Successful Failure 01:29		buy track
6.	Zombie Safari 05:20	lyrics	buy track
Realize religion is an Empire Everyone knows God will turn into a Vampire Womanize ! Don’t think twice, stand up, the world is on Fire God is a Girl and she’s heading for the Empire Womanize ! Lonely body waiting to kill Women are much fun to kill, men need a poison pill, I only get a thrill, when she’s asleep I will... Close your eyes, get ready for your next Life God is on Facebook, she might become your own Wife Womanize ! Hypnotized, you have become a Vampire You’ve got to run down your sexual Desire Womanize !
7.	Hot Water (Acid Trip) 02:26	lyrics	buy track
Feel like hot water I burned my past Losing my lover Happened so fast My love keeps waiting For the dying day Where nothing else is to be said But words of love and happiness - instead I’ll have no-other Until the day I fi nd a lover That melts away My heart keeps burning hide away Before i have a chance to say How much it means to me for you - to stay Love is your wargame (but) love is above A god with no frame Shall feel no pain Your love is chasing Mine away We got lost in each other's head Straight on, I am not finished with you yet !
8.	Love Zombie 06:21		buy track
9.	Robots 03:30	lyrics	buy track
Iron or gold Or a silver-grey plastic fold That’s how we’ve been told To disguise men when they get old All rise Stand by “Evil Eye” has come to get you for the fight! Aaaw... Aaaw! A-Haaw!!! I didn’t want to fight It’s to late, Mr. Hide! Now keep quiet, Dr. Jekyll is inside! Hello Young Heart Your life has been sold You’re a Hero,remotecontrolled! Keep an eye on your soul Be no Robot without a goal All Rise Stand By “Evil Eye” has come to get you for the fight! Aaaw... Aaaw! A-Haaw!!! ch: I do not want to die! Love or hate I can hide He won’t bite (I) Got the Devil on my side! ch: Hello New Heart
10.	Only the Mother Shot in the Head 04:49		buy track

about

Almost precisely 2 years after the release of their first album "Valparaiso" (CHEAP666/003), Joy as A Toy is back with a new opus full of un-nice sentiments, in a position to do justice to its self-awarded title of Vampire Rock destroyers.

"Dead As A Dodo" immortalizes this pretty crazy project presented during the 1st ZomBIFF Night, staged by Cheap Satanism Records at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. As a reminder, bass player Pierre Verloesem (X-Legged Sally, Flat Earth Society …) added to the band on that special occasion. Joy As A Toy took the opportunity to use analogical synthetizers and samplers in order to play a repertoire which was freely inspired by original soundtracks in movies directed by the master of horror Dario Argento. It should have been a mere fun exercise, but the experience turned out to be an incredibly fertile playing field for the trio consisting of Gil Mortio, Clément Nourry and Jean Philippe De Gheest.The result positively surprised the audience, which was not expecting such an enjoyable uppercut in the face. Therefore, the band has decided to convert the attempt into an album in due form.

"Dead As A Dodo" was recorded in company of Pierre Verloesem (who also managed part of the sound mixing and mastering) and with guests such as Mai Lev and Marti Melia. This album sounds as if it were the ideal soundtrack for an hallucinated nightmare, a psychedelic and angular trip as well as a snoring and stumbling B movie. In a few words, it is venomous, funny, grating and implacable.

If references to Ennio Morricone and Goblin are manifest, the band is far from indulging in a simple rereading. Joy As A Toy prefers to incorporate typical codes and figures from the genre to its sonic, unbridled and abounding music. The trio further distances itself from these inspirational models thanks to their ability to polish some tracks with surrealistic vocal harmonies, truly abrasive, which are their trademark. Some will maybe remember that the band members took a genuine pleasure to describe themselves as "Wasted rock'n roll Beach Boys with a bad English accent". This baseline thus seems still relevant today. We just want to believe that the accent has improved.

credits

released May 7, 2012

Words by Jean-Philippe De Gheest
Music by Gil Mortio & Clément Nourry
Freely inspired by Dario Argento’s movies

Produced and mixed by Gil Mortio & Pierre Vervloesem
Engineered by Renaud Carton & Max Gendebien
Recorded in 2011 at lowman’s land & pyramide studios, Brussels
Photography by Kassim Ahmed
Artwork by Flora Bernard

Joy as a Toy are
Gil Mortio keyboards, percussions, bass on #3 and #10, vocals
Clément Nourry guitars, polysix, vocals
Jean-Philippe De Gheest drums, vocals

Pierre Vervloesem bass, guitar on #6
Mai Lev vocals on #6
Marti Melià bass sax on #2

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Cheap Satanism Records Brussel, Belgium

Cheap Satanism Records started as a joke. This lead to more jokes. Initially the label was built around a personality and this personality’s projects. But since, it has become the base of a highly creative game, determined to rule, using force and cunning if necessary. Many things will happen under this banner – 666 projects at least! ... more