Melbourne’s Toehider have released a new video for “The Hoarder,” the first single from their forthcoming album “I Have Little To No Memory Of These Memories.”
The first single “The Hoarder” is a Toehider extravaganza, with a rapid-fire narrative delivered by singer Mike Mills over a Funky Rock groove. The video, animated by acclaimed artists Eleanor Evans & Giovanni Aguilar, brings the story to life in full colour with a combination of comic book imagery and stop-motion graphics, based on the images and characters created by Toehider’s illustrator Andrew Saltmarsh. The single & video introduce the world created for the album by Mills & Saltmarsh.
The album itself is a modern Rock Opera – intended to be listened to as a full 47-minute journey following the characters of The Hoarder and Bralien as well as a third character who declined to be featured in the story.
Watch the official music video through the YouTube player below:
Mike Mills says of the record: “The 45 second song is quite prevalent now, instagram/tiktok social media microcontent and all that. I have a bug in my brain that purposely wanders toward something which is the opposite of what’s popular so I thought “Hey how about doing a 47 MINUTE long song?
The new Toehider album is one song that lasts 47 minutes and 47 seconds.
It look me about 3 years to write and record it. It really came out great and it sounds like a sonic journey through the last 50 or so years of prog rock and metal.
Thematically it’s a comment on remembering. Where are our memories now? Do we even need to remember that much? Or are we trying to remember too much? Are we better off forgetting? Are these memories even mine? How?
The whole thing tells the story of a man, a woman, a huge bird, a dumb alien, and 2 boats that get modded to facilitate an outer-space confrontation.
There’s two different endings. One on the CD, the alternate ending on vinyl.
There’s also an amazing animated video for a portion of the song based on Salty’s characters, animated by Eleanor Evans & Giovanni Aguilar.
Outstanding!”
Toehider is a collaborative project between singer/multi-instrumentalist Mike Mills & graphic designer Andrew Saltmarsh. “I Have Little To No Memory Of These Memories” is the 5th full length studio album and 22ndoverall release (after a series of 12 EPs in 12 months kickstarted the project a decade ago).
Since 2018, Toehider have been running a successful Patreon subscription, generating hundreds of compositions and illustrations available to fans. Their Patreon was recently listed as one of Australia’s Top 10 most successful music subscriptions.
“I Have Little To No Memory Of These Memories” is out through Bird’s Robe Records/ MGM on Friday September 9, 2022.
Preorder it here: https://toehider.bandcamp.com
1. I Have Little To No Memory Of These Memories