A new EP release from Shiny New Toyz delivers a heavy rock soiree that combines elements of alternative rock, driving metal, a little hardcore, and robust, melodic vocals that blend into everything adding a sort of graceful but full-bodied texture to the tracks and also giving them this character that you end up really getting attached to by the end of the record. The Out to Get You EP is definitely a banger, and these songs hit hard where they need to. The tracks are very driving sonically, and the distortion and guitar tone are killer throughout. I absolutely adore the combination and genre-bending styles that these songs give because there are also elements of vastness in the undertones and a bit of progressive rock in there too. So, they can take all these different approaches and release them on one fat record that feels huge even with just three songs. The tracks are riddled with inventive and fierce riffs, and the drums have insane energy, which is a massive part of the driving force behind the entire soundscape. The drumming is a bit wild but perfectly in place, super tight, and still gives off this added sort of life to the songs that lets them feel alive and breathing in their own way. There are so many great time signatures and intricacies throughout the track that show their true metal hearts, and they definitely have a ball creating these songs because there's not only a lot of attention to detail, but there is a love for the craft that's there as well. Not just a love for playing their instruments or singing, more a love for writing songs together and coming up with something unique and a little bit outside the box but still driving in badass. But as I mentioned earlier, these tracks have this sort of vastness underneath them and this lets everything feel expansive and kind of big and also adds to that progressive tonality as well. There's also this brilliant vocal approach that happens on the record where the vocalist performs low and high octaves, and this is a cool thing because it gives this certain texture to the vocal approach that you wouldn't get otherwise. I love how each instrument has a way of complimenting the other and all together they have this sort of driving force that lets them come together and push the envelope to bring the songs exactly where they need to be. Although the songs are super tight, there is a hint of looseness and this sort of 90s underground alternative rock tonality as well that lurks in the underbelly of a lot of these tracks and heads and edginess and even a little darkness to things. This is cool too because when you listen to the record, it feels almost like these songs were recorded live on the floor and everyone involved was just feeding off of each other's energies the entire time. I'm not sure if that's exactly how it happened of course, I wasn't there. But, listening to the records certainly makes you want to go see them perform live simply because if this kind of energy is captured on record so well, then seeing them live must be awesome. For a record with three tracks, you get a good 20 minutes of amazing heavy music and all of it comes together with an element of gracefulness which I dig. By the time the record is over, you feel very satiated because these songs were big. This is definitely a release that you want to listen to all the way through because listening to one track may give you a gist of what's to come but it doesn't give you the full spectrum of what the whole record has to deliver. Again, it's three tracks long but a lot is going on. There are a lot of layers that can be peeled back, a lot of sick riffs, a lot of amazing drumming, and just these textures and atmospheres that they create. I would strongly suggest turning this one nice and loud.