Curse
Toast’s first release, an eponymous album, which, by
definition, was called "Curse Toast,” rocketed onto
the scene in a 3 square block section of Venice Beach. It was immediately
hailed by four of the seven friends who heard it as "good" and "pretty
good." Their sophomore effort, the album dubbed "Two
Words," contained many hit songs, including the first one
and the third one on side two.
But
then came Curse Toast’s
third release, the legendary “Silver
Spork,” prompting Review Addict to proclaim, "A tour
de force through some of the weirder veins in rock…film
clips of life flashing by in the video to the song, silent, morose
faces
and childhood sprinkler days of summer, everything going by in
thought..."
In
other words, it kicked ass.
Riding
the wave of success the band generated with epic staples “Spot” and “Immodest,” the
Toast eagerly planned the next project and anxiously cleared
space in their schedules to write and record an album that
would live in
infamy.
And
now here it is – a mere 132 months later – the
powerful and unabashedly bold product of their creative
loins: The Greenroom.
With
expected themes ranging from plane crashes to evil
neighbors to spicy peppers, widely-accepted cultural
statements such
as atheist holiday cards, religious smut, and Dr. Phil
fans, and
the pièce
de résistance that effectively ties it all together:
axe murder, a more accessible album would be difficult
to find.
Clever.
Creative. Clandestine. |