Toby Martin
Born: 5 / 8 / 1975
Location: Australia
William Toby Martin (born 5 August 1975), is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, academic, and lecturer at University of Huddersfield UK. Martin is the grandson of Hungarian-born Australian poet David Martin and has a PhD in the history of Australian music from the University of Sydney. After fronting Sydney-based band Youth Group from 1996 to 2009, Martin developed his solo career, releasing his first album, Love's Shadow in 2012.
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Live Review: Toby Martin
"Some songs would have benefited from incorporating different voices, rather than having all of these stories filtered through the dude from Youth Group."
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Album Review: Toby Martin - Songs From Northam Avenue
"It doesn't all work, but there is a spirit of place."
EXCLUSIVE: Toby Martin - Songs From Northam Avenue
Album Review: Toby Martin - Love’s Shadow
The arrangements are memorable throughout, but at its heart this is a gentle series of piano and guitar ballads, recounting some of life’s bewildering moments in a sincere and uncomplicated way.
Album Review: Toby Martin - Love’s Shadow
Love’s Shadow is a proudly Australian album, void of nationalistic pride but reveling in the landscape and its people. It’s also a very strong introduction to Toby Martin as a solo artist.
Live Review: Toby Martin, Magnetic Head
Album Review: Toby Martin - Love’s Shadow
Four years after Youth Group’s swansong, Martin is still pitching himself somewhere between the weary observer and the heartbroken traveller.
People And Places
"I guess ‘Postcard From Surfers’ is automatically ironic, ‘cause it’s the sunny beachside capital, but it’s also I think makes a lot of people immediately think of the negative, sleazy kind of unhappy side to that."
Album Review: Toby Martin - Love’s Shadow
A subtle and utterly human record. Just excellent.
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