[Archive/Riffs]: Win: toe is coming.
Originally posted to our sadly now-defunct old website (RIP) by fellow author Hamza Siddiqi on June 12th, 2024.
Hamza wrote a fantastic little retrospective/hype piece on critically lauded post-rockers toe. Be sure to check this one out, plenty more from my team’s older posts also incoming!
Peace, Love and Grindcore xoxo - Brady.
Only a few weeks after announcing Agalloch’s debut Australian tour, Bird’s Robe has made my year again by announcing that they’re bringing Tokyo math-post homebodies toe down under.
This will be their first trip to Australia, and will be in support of their upcoming album, Now We See the Light, which is slated for a July release.
As a fan of relatively low-key, mostly instrumental rock, toe are one of the best live bands on the planet right now; they’ve released four live DVD’s, so I think they know this as well.
You might – *might!* – be forgiven for dismissing toe based on any random math-jam from one of their studio releases (speaking of, I’d recommend For Long Tomorrow), but pull any one of those live recordings up on Youtube and you’ll see a quartet that pours their soul into every melancholy chord progression and acoustic pick scrape; their heart into every jazzed up rim click and whistling synth-line. It’s irresistible.
It’s *so* damn emotive, and I’m looking forward to getting swept away.
Supporting toe on all of their Australian dates are post-metal’s most literally cinematic band, Dumbsaint, playing for the first time since supporting Mono in 2017. They were another band that I never thought I’d get to see… again. It'll be good to catch more of Panorama, in ten pieces; I'm not entirely sure what the release status of the accompanying film is, but my vinyl copy didn't come with a stream link. Hyped.
Three dates, three cities: Melbourne at Max Watts, Sydney at Manning Bar, Brisbane at The Triffid, in reverse order from the 17th of October. Tickets are available through Bird’s Robe.