The same way David Macauley's idiotic, mastodon-concerned sidebars pointlessly interrupt an otherwise informative children's book, Toe (and Yoko Noge's avant-garbage, in particular) contributes nothing to the cause it aligns itself with. Like a joke you have to explain, Variant is very little effort, effortlessly wasted.

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edgyrras

what are the possibilities that two post-rock bands called toe debuted on the 2000s? probably low, but is sooo easy to know which toe you are listening since one is good and the other one isn't. Idk what happened here man, the band has some ties to actually pioneers on post-rock history but they throw everything for a mixture of avant-garde jazz and weird vocals, which yk i'm not opposed to in fact i'd say the first song is pretty good but the rest feel like a gas leak had ... read more

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Now, I like albums. I like it when it when albums invoke a certain feeling. It doesn't always have to be completely digestible, but I like some structure here and there. What I can tell from this, is that it's a whole bunch of nothing that doesn't exist. That's the feeling I get from this thing. Despite the basicness of this album, I still have a mostly positive view on this. The feeling really isn't explainable. I don't know if I really ... read more