TOY first seems like the sort of record which charts the turning of a new leaf. What it really unpacks is the messy bit before that; the uncertainty and new discoveries we come up against between a closed door and an open one waiting for us further down the road. New South Wales outfit Dear Seattle trudge through a sticky mud of heavy emotions, breakups and endings, to new plains of lust and love, and a readiness to metamorphosise into something better. Opening with Nothing’s Stopping Me Now, you’re fed an energised prologue that opens the narrative on growth, a sentiment that bleeds into second track, Promise. Vocalist Brae Fisher holds a mirror up to his own mistakes here, reflecting on a lost relationship to his own errors. Themes...