(Post-Punk) Toy Love - Toy Love (LP) - 1980, MP3, 160 kbps

Toy Love was a New Zealand alternative/punk rock band fronted by Chris Knox. Other members were guitarist Alec Bathgate, bass player Paul Kean, drummer Mike Dooley, and keyboard player Jane Walker. The band developed out of the earlier punk band The Enemy in Dunedin, New Zealand, and are often regarded as the progenitors of the Dunedin Sound movement.
Toy Love were together for less than two years (1978–80) and spent a large part of that time in Australia. They released just one (self-titled) album, however the band members were apparently appalled by the mixing of the tracks which took the edge off the band's deliberately raw sound. In April 2005, this album was remastered and released along with a bunch of demos and unreleased tracks as a double CD entitled Cuts.
After Toy Love broke up, Bathgate and Knox remained together as the Tall Dwarfs.

Toy Love is the self-titled by New Zealand band, Toy Love released in 1980.
For many years the vinyl release of this album waz regarded as one of New Zealand's major record-collecting rarities. The loss of the original master tapes meant that there were no re-pressing or re-releases of the album after its initial 1980 run; with the increasing iconic status of Toy Love as precursors of the Dunedin Sound, which gained widespread popularity in the mid to late 1980s, the album became much sought-after.
The album was not released in digital form until the compilation Cuts in 2005, a compilation which contained the entire Toy Love album along with singles and alternative mixes of several of the album's songs (Toy Love were unhappy with the original album's mix, which blunted the edge of their deliberately raw sound).