In April 2019, Toc performs its first North American road-trip, and between the Canadian snow and the Baltimore humidity, appears for the 3 musicians the desire to come back to record in a studio. They hadn’t had a chance to do so since the recording of You Can Dance (If You Want) (2012), focusing on instantaneous and live composition: the band’s music is shaped with the audience.

So they locked themselves up, before anyone else, in September 2019 for a few days in the Aveyron countryside, where ideas were thrown away, built and deconstructed, always improvised but triturated, arranged, amplified. Always eager to amalgamate sounds and styles, the trio unravels its influences and other bad habits by allowing itself to experiment. Pulse, breath, troubled perspectives, Toc’s psychotropic music crosses the styles we vainly try to attach to it: kraut, post-rock, jazz-core, drone… If energy and electricity are always present, suspensive daydreams also appear, magnetic ambiences where electronics and acoustics mix.

A variety record, therefore, in its first sense, where we see other possibilities for these explorative and enthusiast musicians.

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