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The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety

toe · 2005

• Scores: Noise 1, Unease 1, Complexity 3 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Rock, Math Rock, Post-Rock
• Mood: warm, bright, nimble
• Sound: instrumental, odd time signatures, intricate drumming, clean guitar interplay, jazz influence

The debut full-length from the Japanese instrumental band toe, released through Catune on 31 August 2005. The band is guitarists Hirokazu Yamazaki and Takaaki Mino, bassist Satoshi Yamane and drummer Takashi Kashikura. Most of their music is instrumental, built on dynamic drumming and melodic, clean guitars. Later records added acoustic guitars, Rhodes piano, vibraphones and vocals.

Track list

1. 反逆する風景 (0:58)
2. 孤独の発明 (3:23)
3. tremolo+delay (3:03)
4. 向こう岸が視る夢 (4:42)
5. all i understand is that i don't understand (4:54)
6. c (4:07)
7. past and language (5:30)
8. music for you (1:48)
9. i do still wrong (3:00)
10. メトロノーム (3:37)
11. everything means nothing (3:14)