An experimental amphibious amorphation, Golden Toad is the new solo project of Al Brown: formerly the creative mastermind behind Japanese Television, and video artist for Idles, Lambrini Girls, Unkle, Deap Vally. Brown locked himself away over the summer of 2024 in a garage studio in Kent, surrounded by prized roses, picket fences, fluttering Union Jacks, and wooden crosses. This seclusion spawned a debut album that fuses electronic, krautrock and psych to create something truly mesmerising.
“A bottomless funk of motorik rhythms, twisting basslines and Balearic guitars” The Quietus Album of the Week
“A hypnotic update on the countercultural perspective, mining deep into a decades long trove of sonic leftism” Electronic Sound
“Roams freely within the Can-osphere from surf rock to mutated Detroit techno to Eno revisiting his Bowie/Berlin phase” Mojo
“Clever, captivating stuff” Analogue Trash
“A unique blend of motorik psych-punk” The Most Radicalist
“Big, big fan of that” New Music Fix Daily, BBC 6 Music
“Something of a psych rock explosion” We All Want Someone To Shout For
“Brilliant” Simone Marie, Soho Radio
“Golden Toad, you need to know about them” Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music
“Original and with an off-the-cuff feel, this is one for the heads” The Arts Desk
Radio play on BBC 6 Music (Lauren Laverne, Nemone, New Music Fix Daily, Riley & Coe), NTS, Soho Radio