We have come to expect much of the so-called "uncategorizable" new
music coming out of Chicago to be merely elusive or indirect. But indirectness
is not something you can accuse Toe leader David Pavkovic of. Witness "Absolutism
Two," the first track on the reocrd, "Variant." The slamming,
overlapping drums crashing in triple meter against Yoko Noge's sneering, Marianne
Faithfull-of-the-Forbidden-Zone rant, is nothing if not pointed. Directly at
you. This could be punk rock, this could be real-time jungle, this could be
Japanese Taiko drums, so...what the hell is it?
Toe is a reminder from the old school of ENO and his ilk that the point of a
song, no matter how avant, is in its emotional resonance, not how complicated
the time signature is. For all its structural jumpcuts, Toe consistently makes
melodic and even pop sense.
"Toe 2000’s Music has grown from the love of finely tuned musical compositions that transport the listener to another plane. More concerned with instrumentation than vocals, they reject the traditional verse and chorus structure and instead opt for a more orchestrated sound." -Impact Press
Variant
2000
self titled
1999