Album artwork for Toy by A Giant Dog

A Giant Dog's Toy. Available here on Indie Exclusive Red Colored LP, Standard LP and CD.

Toy, the fourth LP from A Giant Dog and their second for Merge, shows the Austin quintet at the height of their powers. A solid year of road-dogging and woodshedding has made the band tighter than ever, the charging dynamo of Andrew Cashen and Andy Bauer's guitars in lockstep with the primal chug of the rhythm section Graham Low on bass and the recorded debut of Daniel Blanchard on drums. Singer Sabrina Ellis turns in another masterful performance, in equal parts brash, defiant, vulnerable, and raw. Lyrically, Sabrina and Andrew have a gift for making their personal frustrations and fuck-ups, fears, lusts, and addictions feel universal. While they have always given voice to the weirdos and creeps—showing that their peccadilloes and peculiarities are much more deep-seated and widespread they dig even deeper on Toy. “I feel I’ve revealed more in this album than ever before,” Sabrina confesses.

The band recorded Toy with Grammy-winning engineer Stuart Sikes (Loretta Lynn, Cat Power, The White Stripes, Reigning Sound), and singer / songwriter / guitarist/wildman Cashen produced it. "Andrew as producer makes a lot of sense," Sabrina says. "He composes the songs and knows better than anyone what they should sound like in the end. With him at the helm, we've arrived at a raw, truthful, risky, and rangey album." Toy is also sonically huge, pulling from a range of influence s as diverse as Tinariwen and Thin Lizzy.

LP+ - Limited, indie-only "lipstick" red LP.

LP - The LP edition of Toy is housed in a full-colour, heavyweight cardstock inner sleeve that includes lead singer Sabrina Ellis' handwritten lyrics on one side and a photo of the band on the other. The outer jacket features AGD cover model Jennifer, created by singer / guitarist Andrew Cashen.

CD - The CD is housed in a digipak containing a full-colour, double-sided foldout mini-poster that features the handwritten lyrics and a photo of the band.

A Giant Dog

Toy

Merge Records
Album artwork for Toy by A Giant Dog
LP

$19.99

The LP edition of Toy is housed in a full-colour, heavyweight cardstock inner sleeve that includes lead singer Sabrina Ellis' handwritten lyrics on one side and a photo of the band on the other. The outer jacket features AGD cover model Jennifer, created by singer / guitarist Andrew Cashen.

Black
Released 08/25/2017Catalog Number

MRG592.1

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Album artwork for Toy by A Giant Dog
CD

$10.99

The CD is housed in a digipak containing a full-colour, double-sided foldout mini-poster that features the handwritten lyrics and a photo of the band.

Released 08/25/2017Catalog Number

cd50592

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A Giant Dog

Toy

Merge Records
Album artwork for Toy by A Giant Dog
LP

$19.99

The LP edition of Toy is housed in a full-colour, heavyweight cardstock inner sleeve that includes lead singer Sabrina Ellis' handwritten lyrics on one side and a photo of the band on the other. The outer jacket features AGD cover model Jennifer, created by singer / guitarist Andrew Cashen.

Black
Released 08/25/2017Catalog Number

MRG592.1

Learn more
Album artwork for Toy by A Giant Dog
CD

$10.99

The CD is housed in a digipak containing a full-colour, double-sided foldout mini-poster that features the handwritten lyrics and a photo of the band.

Released 08/25/2017Catalog Number

cd50592

Learn more

A Giant Dog's Toy. Available here on Indie Exclusive Red Colored LP, Standard LP and CD.

Toy, the fourth LP from A Giant Dog and their second for Merge, shows the Austin quintet at the height of their powers. A solid year of road-dogging and woodshedding has made the band tighter than ever, the charging dynamo of Andrew Cashen and Andy Bauer's guitars in lockstep with the primal chug of the rhythm section Graham Low on bass and the recorded debut of Daniel Blanchard on drums. Singer Sabrina Ellis turns in another masterful performance, in equal parts brash, defiant, vulnerable, and raw. Lyrically, Sabrina and Andrew have a gift for making their personal frustrations and fuck-ups, fears, lusts, and addictions feel universal. While they have always given voice to the weirdos and creeps—showing that their peccadilloes and peculiarities are much more deep-seated and widespread they dig even deeper on Toy. “I feel I’ve revealed more in this album than ever before,” Sabrina confesses.

The band recorded Toy with Grammy-winning engineer Stuart Sikes (Loretta Lynn, Cat Power, The White Stripes, Reigning Sound), and singer / songwriter / guitarist/wildman Cashen produced it. "Andrew as producer makes a lot of sense," Sabrina says. "He composes the songs and knows better than anyone what they should sound like in the end. With him at the helm, we've arrived at a raw, truthful, risky, and rangey album." Toy is also sonically huge, pulling from a range of influence s as diverse as Tinariwen and Thin Lizzy.

LP+ - Limited, indie-only "lipstick" red LP.

LP - The LP edition of Toy is housed in a full-colour, heavyweight cardstock inner sleeve that includes lead singer Sabrina Ellis' handwritten lyrics on one side and a photo of the band on the other. The outer jacket features AGD cover model Jennifer, created by singer / guitarist Andrew Cashen.

CD - The CD is housed in a digipak containing a full-colour, double-sided foldout mini-poster that features the handwritten lyrics and a photo of the band.