We are really fascinated with Bay Area's Toads, a new line-up we discovered at the last online GonerFest, with criminal records in bands like Midnite Snaxxx, Icky Boyfriends, or our always favorite Loli & The Chones, whose riffs sometimes may show their garagy background, although the sound is much more concise and precise, and has much more to do with a primal early punk, where the linear but tough ways of their vocalist, Miranda Fisher, manage to make this first mini-album another of our objects of desire for the first quarter of this year!
\"TOADS have arrived with a record perfectly suited for this drowned world of pandemics, cynicism, and detachment from reality. End-times tunes, if you will. Eight songs, each one barely hitting the two-minute mark, sounding both blistering and dry. Some might mistakenly liken the vibe to post-punk, but TOADS’ sound is pierced through with sharp DIY sensibilities, closer to the earliest days of punk, back when people were still getting off on getting weird. TOADS’ new kind of kick is delivered by a lineup comprised of grizzled scene vets and new (to you) faces in hell: guitarist Chris Santamaria (Midnite Snaxxx, Loli & the Chones), drummer Anthony Bedard (Icky Boyfriends, Hank IV), bassist Mitch Cardwell, and ferromagnetic vocalist Miranda Fisher.\"
— Icki, 2020
Recorded by Jason Testasecca --- December 2019
Mastered by Mikey Young --- July 2020
Lacquers by Bob Weston, Chicago Mastering Service --- August 2020
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