Toys Up is the third studio album by the Greek music band Matisse

Matisse (band)

Matisse is an English language-singing alternative rock band from Athens, Greece formed in 1999. They took their name from the famous French painter Henri Matisse.- Early history :...

released in Greece in 2007.

Music style

Compared to the band's earlier albums, the style of Toys Up is unexpected. Not following the feeling and pop rock

Pop rock

Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

 sound of their debut Cheap As Art

Cheap As Art

Cheap As Art is the debut album by the Greek alternative rock band Matisse. They depict their debut as "an invocation to lunacy, as art always bowed down to madness".- Track listing :#"Let Me Go Home"#"Rock N' Roll For Boys"#"The Gospel"...

, Toys Up introduces another side of the band. More solid, determined and conclusively whole, darker and more rough around the edges, this visceral new attitude has infiltrated the seemingly bright songs of the album and has inevitably embraced the deep, intensely clouded lyrics, a change that is obviously portrayed through the songs in Toys Up.

Album artwork

The original album collage was done by Emanuale Balzani, who said that he took the inspiration from the paper collages that Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...

 made when he was infected by cancer

Cancer

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 in the period before his death. It is in essence an ode to the great painter for his work.

Track listing

1. "Call Me Call Me" - 3:41
2. "Judgment Day" - 3:53
3. "Killer Kids" - 3:20
4. "Mind the gap" - 2:59
5. "Gas" - 2:00
6. "5 Seconds of Love" - 3:39
7. "Snowhite"- 3:00
8. "She Bop
   She Bop
   "She Bop" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released as the third single from her album She's So Unusual. It reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984. Worldwide, the song is her most commercially successful single after "Time After Time", and reached number...
   
   " - 3:25 (Cyndi Lauper
   Cyndi Lauper
   Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...
   
   cover)
9. "Toys Up" - 2:36
10. "Hit and Miss" - 2:05
11. "Telephone AVIV" (Hill of Spring) - 1:00
12. "Call Me Call Me" (GK Full Moon Mix) - 1:22