toe has announced the main visual, participating artists, and track list for his fourth original full-length album, “NOW I SEE THE LIGHT.”

For You, Someone Like Me
To you, who is somewhere in this world and resembles me,

New album “NOW I SEE THE LIGHT”
This is toe’s fourth original full-length album, following his previous EP “OUR LATEST NUMBER”, “The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety” (2005), “For Long Tomorrow” (2009), and “Hear You” (2015).

Guest appearances by Kodama Nao (05_WHO KNOWS?) and Tokuzawa Seigen (06_CLOSE TO YOU, 09_MADNESS SUMMER, 10_NOW I SEE THE LIGHT).
The main visual, a photograph of a lighthouse, was created by Taketoshi Sato.
Nii Makoto, who has designed all of toe’s music, is in charge of the overall art direction for this work as well, and the music video for the lead song “LONELINESS WILL SHINE” was directed by photographer Ota Yoshiharu.

It has also been decided that the album will be released physically simultaneously in East Asia by White Noise Records (Hong Kong) and in North America by Topshelf Records (USA).
Total of 10 songs.

We are now “seeing that hope.”

[RELEASE INFO]

toe “NOW I SEE THE LIGHT”

Release date: 2024.07.10
Format: Digital, CD, Cassette
Label: Machu Picchu Industries

CD (first production order)：XQIF-91002 / ￥3,300
cassette：XQIF-6001 / ￥3,080

01. Wind and Memory
02. LONELINESS WILL SHINE
03. TODO Y NADA
04. Somewhere in the city
05. WHO KNOWS?
06. CLOSE TO YOU
07. Chiaroscuro
08. Sunny Boy Rhapsody
09. MADNESS SUMMER
10. NOW I SEE THE LIGHT

[LIVE INFO]

■Thursday, July 4, 2024
Playtime Music Festival / Mongolia Playtime Field-Nalaikh,Ulaanbaatar MONGOL

■Sunday, July 28, 2024
FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL’24 / Naeba Ski Resort, Yuzawa-cho, Niigata Prefecture

■Friday, August 2, 2024
Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival 2024 / Songdo Moonlight Festival Park, Incheon, South Korea

■September 7th (Sat) – 8th (Sun) 2024
ONE PARK FESTIVAL 2024 / Fukui City Central Park Special Venue

Other information is scheduled to be released in due course.

【PROFILE】

The band was formed in 2000 with four members: Hirokazu Yamazaki (guitar), Takaaki Mino (guitar), Satoshi Yamane (bass), and Takashi Kashiwakura (drums).
He releases music through his own label, Machu Picchu Industrias, and continues to work in his own unique DIY style.
Although the music is mainly instrumental, their recordings and live performances excite and captivate both listeners and viewers, and they have received tremendous support from artists across a wide range of genres. They have also participated in various collaborations for both their recordings and live performances.
The band has signed a contract with Topshelf Records (USA) to release their music in Europe and the US.
They have toured numerous times in North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and have performed at numerous festivals both in Japan and abroad, making them a worldwide band.

・Album: The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety (2005) For Long Tomorrow (2009) HEAR YOU (2015) That’s Another Story (2018)
・EP: Songs, Ideas We Forgot(2003) New Sentimentality(2006) The Future Is Now(2012) Our Latest Number(2018)
・single: MOTHER (feat. ILL-BOSSTINO & 5lack) (2023)

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