press: Spacecityrock.com - April 2007 Annie Lin You would have to ground a teenager and then lock him in his room with nothing but a laptop and some vintage Playboys to get music as outrageous, hormonally-charged, and wonderful as this. Arizona Night Buzz - May 2006 Jonathan Bond …the silly content and presentation couldn’t hide the real musicianship taking place. Amarillo Globe-News - May 2006 Trent Brunson As the one-man band Toof, Trey D’Amico of Austin combines his musical talents with a sharp, quick-witted humor to entertain audiences. His lyrics are akin to the Flaming Lips, and his sound sits somewhere near Aphex Twin and The Postal Service. Austin Chronicle SXSW Picks and Sleepers - March 2006 Darcie Stevens Meet Toof, a one-man band of surprising diversity and imagination. Austin’s Trey D’Amico is an electronic wizard, performing with scarcely more than an electric guitar, keyboard, and his God-given falsetto. With the recent Jennifer Love Handles (Propeller), Toof brings silliness to a new level: It’s all chains, cannibalism, and hangovers. The Big Take Over #57 Jennifer Love Handles Review - December 2005 Jack Rabid Toof, AKA one Trey D’Amico, would have fit OK on a 1979 bill with The Normal, Tuxedomoon, and UJ3RKS, his impertinent culture take expressing itself via humorous titles such as Jennifer Love Handles (ha!), “The Theme Song to Boobies,” and “The Ballad of Mean and Nasty,” as well as synth loops, simplistic icy organs, samples, and old drum machine ticking. It’s an electronic minimalist primal primer. What I like is the budding pyschopath vocals the Austin-by-way-of-Brooklyn nutter bestows, as if he went down there to sit at the right hand of Gibby Hanes of Butthole Surfers which electronic music could stand more of. If he really does lots of LSD like his bio claims (believable!), this will make you want to tune in, turn on, and drop out on 6th Street. Austin Chronicle Jennifer Love Handles Review - November 2005 Darcie Stevens One-man bands are all the rage these days, but none of them has as much fun as Trey D’Amico, aka Toof. Rocking out with scarce but for a guitar and keyboard, Toof hits the chain restaurants (”The Theme Song to Boobies”) with the Secret Machines (”The Ballad of Mean and Nasty”) while combatting cannibalism (”Pink”) and hangovers (”Beeline”). Somewhere between comedy and genius, Toof will make you dance with laughter. NOW Toronto - Critic’s Pick NXNE - June 2005 Tim Perlich Trey D’Amico’s mom thinks he’s cool. You will, too. Austin Chronicle - Recommended sxsw 2004 Christopher Gray A spiritual cousin to Austin’s Casio-addicted Pong, Toof comes across like early Beck after staying up all night reading Isaac Asimov. His entirely self-performed 2002 EP Bus Stop Style fires up the drum machine for a journey into a realm where killer starfish mutate into stoner-rock riffs and breakdancing robots shoot lasers from their eyes. NOW Toronto - Critic’s Pick NXNE - June 2004 Austin beatmaker/bassist Trey D’Amico (aka toof) distills thoughts on topics ranging from LSD to pretty girls in his unique sci-fi disco Austin Chronicle Christopher Gray “. . . Here [is one of the] reasons Austin is still a better music town than wherever you live . . . Lone Casio-keeper wards off impending robotic invasion with sci-fi disco, but a beguiling backward-looped break steals his eyebeam-shooting heart.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.