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Yello: Toy

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Label: Universal Music
Released: 2016.09.30
Time:
 61:04
Category: Electronic Dance Music
Producer(s): Yello
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.yello.com
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Purchase date: 2016
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Frautonium Intro (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 1:10
[2] Limbo (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:23
[3] 30'000 Days (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:05
[4] Cold Flame [feat. Malia] (B.Blank/Malia/D.Meier) - 4:02
[5] Kiss the Cloud [feat. Fifi Rong] (B.Blank/D.Meier/F.Rong) - 3:14
[6] Pacific AM (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:23
[7] Starlight Scene (B.Blank/Malia/D.Meier) - 3:17
[8] Give You the World [feat. Malia) (B.Blank/Malia/D.Meier) - 3:32
[9] Tool of Love (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:12
[10] Dialectical Kid (B.Blank/H.Happy/D.Meier) - 3:18
[11] Dark Side (B.Blank/D.Meier/F.Rong) - 4:15
[12] Blue Biscuit (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:36
[13] Magma (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 6:27
[14] Frautonium (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:21

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Boris Blank - Arranger, Composer, Engineer, Liner Notes, Vocals, Producer
Dieter Meier - Liner Notes, Vocals, Producer

Jeremy Baer - Guitar on [3,7]
Heidi Happy - Vocals on [10]
Malia - Vocals on [2,4,7,9], Background Vocals on [1,8]
Fifi Rong - Vocals [5,11]

Ursli Webser - Mastering
Martin Wanner - Artwork, Photography
Helen Sobiralski - Photography
Andrew Rich - Photograohy
Ian Tregoning - Music Consultant

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Toy is the thirteenth studio album by the Swiss electronic duo Yello. It was released on 30 September 2016 on Universal Music. In order to promote the album, Yello performed four sold-out shows at Berlin's Kraftwerk during the last week of October 2016, their first live shows ever.



Most North Americans seem to believe Yello's career began and ended with "Oh Yeah," the 1985 tune from their album Stella that became unavoidable in movies and television for years afterward. But the truth is, Yello have been a presence in international pop music since 1980, and with their 13th album, 2016's Toy, they've reminded us that they're still making smart, well-crafted, and politely subversive electronic pop more than three decades after their biggest hit. Stylistically, Toy doesn't sound radically different than the work Yello did in the '80s and '90s, though their touch has grown a bit lighter with time. These tunes are pop that exists somewhere between crisp EDM-influenced rhythms and witty ambient music. Boris Blank (who handles the group's music and production) moves back and forth from upbeat numbers with tuneful hooks and dance-friendly percussive effects to low-key soundscapes that, despite their playful edge, communicate a mood far more than a melody. Vocalist and lyricist Dieter Meier was 71 when Toy was released, but his gruff, smoky instrument fits the clean, polished surfaces of this music remarkably well, like Leonard Cohen's eccentric cousin from Switzerland. Toy wisely front-loads the catchier numbers, especially "Limbo," "Cold Flame" (featuring guest vocals from Malia), and "30,000 Days," while the set closes with more abstract and free-flowing tracks such as "Magma" and "Toy Square." Toy doesn't sound especially innovative, but it certainly demonstrates that Yello haven't been resting on their laurels, and at its best, the album applies new thinking in electronic pop with the melodic and production approaches that have always been part of Yello's music, for a set that's fresh but unmistakably their work.

Max Demming - All Music Guide



The Swiss electronic music pioneers’ 13th album and first since 2009 retools their influential, experimental roots. Keyboard wizard Boris Blank, 64, brings an avalanche of sounds and samples to Limbo’s trademark, inimitable absurdist pop, accompanying Orson Wells-voiced Dieter Meier’s typically droll, surreal lyrical narrative. With much of the album sounding like the sort of music that might play in a futurist casino, Blank’s sonic palette stretches from eastern pipes to Balearic comedown music to (gulp) sexagenarian dubstep. Meanwhile, it’s hard not to imagine the inscrutable frontman waxing his moustache with delight at titles such as Tool of Love and the bone dry lyrics of Starlight Scene, wherein he loses his heart to someone offering “irony and wonderful hypocrisy”. At 71, Meier can be forgiven for enjoying the company of one too many female guest vocalists, although Fifi Rong propels Kiss the Cloud and Dark Side with a similar powerful glamour that Shirley Bassey once brought to The Rhythm Divine.

Dave Simpson - 29 September 2016
© 2016 Guardian News and Media



Yello’s thirteenth album – and first in nine years – is a super-smart, electronic smorgasbord of moods and styles from the liquid synths of its lead-off single ‘Limbo’ to continental torch songs like ‘Dark Side’ and the shimmering Balearic sunset moods of ‘Blue Biscuit’. ‘Toy’ is nothing less than the unmistakable sound of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank gleefully working at the top of their game after nearly four decades making music together. Yello: still sounding like the future after all these years.

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