This is the first solo album of the ex-The Urbane Gorillas and Harvey’s Wall Of Sound musician - Glyn Bailey. According to the cover, he is a friendly smiling man, writing, singing and performing ultra simple songs. Pop-rock songs with the hard-rock incrustations about love, flowers, John Lennon… and plastic bags, abusive relationships, divorce, cheating and other “joys” of our world. The whole album, containing 15 melodic songs which are so catchy that you’ll begin to sing with the author after the first listening, can be described as “I sing what I see”. But it’s not bad. Maybe a little bit boring or not original.

.. but sometimes it even reminds something of John Lennon’s solo works lazy murmuring and at the same time David Bowie’s vocal style, Donovan’s fights for freedom and folk songs tunes.

With calm, touching singing, mild arrangement, Toys From Balsa will bright a lonely evening or a work day at the computer. Thoughtful enough to bring about a philosophic mood, but light and ‘quirky’ (as the author calls it) it’ll be wonderful for everyone, except those metalheads, who profess the motto “Never trust a hippie and everything that isn’t metal enough”.
If you are more mind-opened than that, have fun!