Toothless
The Pace of the Passing
Toothless is the side project of Ed Nash - the bassist from Bombay Bicycle Club. The Pace of the Passing is a beautifully realised, and carefully constructed record. You can hear a delicious sense of leftfield playfulness in the melodies across the whole album, and rather than obscure them with fuzzy noise, or layer them up with guitar on guitar, Ed just allows them to radiate and glow in their own simplicity. It’s a charm he employs on both Charon and Sisyphus, the opening numbers, and then weaves it across the whole album. Despite endless highlights, it’s an album that deserves to be heard as it was made to be heard, in its entirety. A playlist in its own right. Despite The Pace of the Passing being very much the mind of one man, Toothless welcomes some friends to assist in finding this vision. Marika Hackman (Palm’s Backside), Tom Fleming of Wild Beasts (The Midas Touch), Bombay collaborator Liz Lawrence (Party For Two), and The Staves (The Sirens) all add vocal flourishes to the respective songs, whilst Bombay Bicycle Club’s vocalist Jack Steadman shares the production duties with Ed himself. Toothless is very much the prime concern of Ed’s, rather than a momentary flutter away from the day job. Tours are in the process of being booked. As an introduction to this creative young mind, The Pace of the Passing is a fantastic accomplishment and a moreish listen.
Tracklist
1. Charon
2. Sisyphus
3. Palm's Backside (feat. Marika Hackman)
4. Alright Alright Alright
5. The Midas Touch (feat. Tom Fleming)
6. Party for Two (feat. Liz Lawrence)
7. You Thought I Was Your Friend (I Want To Hurt You)
8. The Sun's Midlife Crisis
9. The Sirens (feat. The Staves)
10. Terra
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