Toby Goodshank - Truth Jump Fall - Vinyl LP

Title: Toby Goodshank - Truth Jump Fall - Vinyl LP

Cat No: BBI0401

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Toby Goodshank made his high-profile musical debut playing acoustic guitar in The Moldy Peaches. Truth Jump Fall originally dates from 2011, only released previously on home-pressed CDr. Songwriter Myles Manley says "I was having grave doubts about the musical form I had chosen, a man singing songs with an acoustic guitar, when I was fresh off the boat at the 2009 Summer Antifolk Festival. Toby Goodshank took to the stage with wild curly hair and a sly demeanour, mustachioed like a B-grade 1980s German pornstar. Over subtly detailed and intricate guitar playing his powerful and emotive baritone voice began to somersault like a swallow of rock. It was an impeccably crafted performance which held the packed back room of the Sidewalk Cafe in hushed reverence of transcendental folk music. Fast forward to 2011 and the release of Toby Goodshank's album Truth Jump Fall, by which point I was in the fortunate position to bother the artist and pick his brains about the process for this latest work. It had been clear from the Montana Casey directed video for the opening title track that this, by conservative count his 28th solo release within a decade, was to be something special. Much of Toby's work feels like a zesty thumb of the nose at domesticated bullshit; this album is unusually sombre and haunting in tone, written in the period following the death of his father and bringing his prodigious skills as a songwriter to bear on processing the accompanying grief and trauma. The lyrics, as ever, include a bricolage mosaic of cultural artefacts, lurid sexual outbursts and cryptic storytelling. The accompaniment to Toby's voice and acoustic guitar is minimal (drums, bass, organ, pads, and some choice contributions - including electric saw - from other friends) but careful, and perfectly weighted to the strange, tight musculature of the songs. The result is an album of such cohesion and emotional depth that, as an already confirmed stan, I delighted in it not just for my own sake but for how I could use it; it has since functioned like a gateway drug for most folk I aim to push into the devious musical world of this great songwriter Toby Goodshank."