NOW I SEE THE LIGHT

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1.	風と記憶 04:16		buy track
2.	LONELINESS WILL SHINE 05:56	lyrics	buy track
声は枯れたその見慣れた空遠い別れこの日生まれた永久声は枯れたその見慣れた空震える余韻振れる想い EMPTY 世界が永遠と穿った SILENT 闇探す以外は思考 NO WAY 希望の塀昨日の明暗笑顔で泣いた清廉を睨んだ花を抱いた手を覆いロンリーダンサー GONE WITH CRYING 選んだ声は枯れたその見慣れた空問いが彼を問う塞いだ遠い別れ CRY その見慣れた空震える余韻振れる想い揺れながら I AM HEARING VOICE FROM YOU 震えながら揺れながらスローな映像に咲く花 HOW COME YOU DON’T CALL TONIGHT? 声は枯れたその見慣れた空遠い別れこの日生まれた永久声は枯れたその見慣れた空震える余韻振れる想い声は枯れたその見慣れた空 I AM HEARING VOICE FROM YOU
3.	TODO Y NADA 04:48		buy track
4.	街のどこかで 02:09		buy track
5.	WHO KNOWS ? 04:30	lyrics	buy track
空の上絵に唄う朝キミに合う破片をあの予告編も HOW SILLYと泪を意思のメーデー響キアウ HELLO ! HOW LOW ? WHO ? WHAT ? まだ春か　WE TURN RED 手を振り　蒔いた I DANCE ALONE ただ愛は WE TURN IT ON 呼び瞬いた WE DANCE ALONE 遠い方 WHO KNOWS 永遠 ? まだ春か　WE TURN RED 手を振り　蒔いたただ愛は WE TURN IT ON 呼び瞬いた I DANCE ALONE YOU DANCE ALONE ALONE TOGETHER WHO KNOWS 永遠 ?
6.	CLOSE TO YOU 04:16		buy track
7.	キアロスクーロ 03:23		buy track
8.	サニーボーイ・ラプソディ 04:23	lyrics	buy track
もう触れた　LET WE 会おう愛の形骸　LET ME TURN YOU ON以降追う絵　覆う手を I OWE　負う影をもう触れた　LET WE 会おう愛の形骸追う絵　覆う手を I OWE　負う影を覆う絵　追う手をもう触れた　LET WE 会おう追う絵　覆う手を LET WE 会おう愛の形骸　LET ME TURN YOU ON以降追う絵　覆う手を I OWE　負う影を LET WE　会おう追う絵　覆う手を I OWE　負う影を或るココロには遠のくハウるかな？「応え問う」の愚 “Be in the wrong. Are we on the same ...？” I OWE　負う影を愛の形骸　LET ME TURN YOU ON以降 I OWE　負う影を追う絵　覆う手を或るココロには遠のく
9.	MADNESS SUMMER 01:32		buy track
10.	NOW I SEE THE LIGHT 03:53	lyrics	buy track
HOW CAN I SEEK YOU 闇の向こう何が伝えた？意味も笑みも届かない君の理を　希望を　その哀しみが得るもの AND I SEE THE LIGHT NOW 日々の色昨日を追うの？

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For You, Someone Like Me
この世界のどこかに居る、僕に似た君に送る

Since forming in 2000, toe have synthesized everything from pop, post- and math-rock, jazz, R&B, and electronic into one of the most distinct sounds in rock music. Their debut LP the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety (2005) left an unmistakable imprint across the splintered worlds of instrumental and experimental music, exploding the tenets of post-rock with writing and performances that channel the intensity of hardcore.

toe have kept the same lineup since their inception. Yamazaki Hirokazu’s acoustic and Mino Takaaki’s electric guitars often juxtapose one another against the backdrop of drummer Kashikura Takashi’s unmatched sense of feel and rhythm, specializing in phrases that trick the listener with unanticipated backbeats and climactic gasps. Bassist Yamane Satoshi lends depth to the staccato, explorative melodies, gluing them to, and making sense of Takashi’s unique style.

The debut’s follow-up, For Long Tomorrow (2009), was a breakthrough that explored their pop and jazz DNA, as well cementing comparisons to post-rock forebears and contemporaries like Tortoise. For Long Tomorrow also produced one of toe’s better known songs in “グッドバイ / Goodbye,” a re-recording of the 2006 track from the New Sentimentality EP, this time featuring Japanese pop singer Asako Toki.

2015’s Hear You was defined by its loosening of the rhythmically frenzied work that predated it. Understated instrumentation stretched and smeared style and genre spectra, as heard in the piano-laden “オトトタイミングキミト”; the drumless rap on “Time Goes”; and the tabla, synth, and chanting in “G.O.O.D L.U.C.K.” Although such experimentation was always foreshadowed by the band’s early EPs songs, ideas we forgot (2003) and The Future Is Now (2012)—and later echoed by Our Latest Number (2018)—Hear You is still subdued, a marked departure from the band’s prior work.

NOW I SEE THE LIGHT (2024), toe’s fourth full-length album, is a bridge between the experimental restraint of their later work and the explosive abandon of their earlier output. From the opening tracks, toe balance serpentine passages against meditative repetition. On “LONELINESS WILL SHINE,” “サニーボーイ・ラプソディ,” and “NOW I SEE THE LIGHT,” Hirokazu reprises his role as part-time vocalist, breaking the band yet further from the instrumental work that formerly defined them. As a whole, NOW I SEE THE LIGHT closes the loop between early and late toe, giving them a clean slate for their new outlook.

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released July 10, 2024

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toe Japan

toe is composed of Kashikura Takashi on drums, Mino Takaaki on guitar, Yamane Satoshi on bass guitar, and Yamazaki Hirokazu on guitar. The band has played with this lineup since their inception in 2000.

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Oct 17

The Triffid

Newstead, QLD
Oct 18

Manning Bar

Camperdown, NSW
Oct 19

Max Watt's Melbourne

Melbourne, VIC
Oct 23

Meow

Wellington, New Zealand

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