Toth Practice Magic Vinyl LP 2019

1. Down for the Count
2. Song to Make You Fall in Love With Me
3. No Reason
4. Copilot
5. Picture of You
6. Funny Business
7. When I Awoke
8. Guts to Fly
9. Sentientiment
10. Blessing Song
11. Decay

In July 2016, Alex Toth was recovering from a broken foot and a broken heart, stuck in his fourth-floor apartment in Brooklyn with cast and crutches. This is where Toth's debut album, 'Practice Magic and Seek Professional Help When Necessary', was born. A few months earlier, Alex and his Rubblebucket cofounder and love of more than eleven years had 'consciously uncoupled', after a period of helping each other through devastating challenges - ovarian cancer and alcoholism, depression and crippling anxiety. It was a separation rooted in profound respect, marked by matching stick-and-poke tattoos, and followed by a continuing, fruitful creative partnership. In the wake of the breakup, Alex - a nocturnal wind-up dance toy who only sometimes winds down (he has worn a nicotine patch for four years straight with no exit plan) - was lightning-struck by sadness. 'Almost convalescent' at times, in his words, though rarely still. A fiercely dedicated jazz trumpeter by training, Alex is always playing. More importantly, he is always, always writing. And that spring, in the midst of dance parties and silent meditations, rooftop smokes and intense crying jags, a new kind of music started to come. Raw, stripped-down songs unfurling in the middle of the night without agenda, bent over an acoustic guitar. It never occurred to Alex that he was making an album.