There’s something deeply unhinged – in the best possible way- about HYSTERIC HELEN crawling back out of Bratislava’s concrete psyche after a decade of silence, dragging Chapter Two behind the Slovak band like a half-buried relic. My Little Toy, their raucous latest single, arrives less as a comeback than a cathartic relapse: sharp nerves, cheap lights, bodies moving because stopping would feel worse. This is a song made by people who have already burned through any sense of nostalgia.
The track opens with strange little invocations: chants that sound like they were muttered into a cracked mirror at 4 a.m, before the chorus snaps into a blunt four-on-the-floor thud. It’s a wake-up slap, the kind that yanks even the dead-eyed toward motion. Dirty77’s vocals spiral and bend around the beat, taunting it, flirting with collapse, then snapping back into line. Guitars cut in jagged arcs, darkwave propulsion keeps the hips honest, and the whole thing lurches forward with a crooked grin.
Lyrically, the band tosses a small grenade wrapped in a sentence: “You can love in different ways, it’s not just romance, tenderness, and gentle caresses.” No sermon, no soft-focus plea…just a blunt reminder that desire comes warped, misaligned, and occasionally ridiculous. There’s a knowing humour baked into the delivery, a sense that affection can be messy, ritualistic, transactional, ecstatic, or slightly absurd, sometimes all at once. The lineage is clear: deathrock bones with post-punk muscle, but the attitude feels freshly feral rather than museum-polished.
The self-directed video leans hard into that mood. A darkened club, bodies layered over bodies, movement smeared into suggestion. It plays like a midnight rite staged by people who know the rules well enough to mock them. Hedonism slips into farce, then circles back to something sincere. It’s strange, ritual-heavy, and faintly goofy…proof that excess doesn’t have to take itself seriously to hit hard.
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Hysteric Helen’s My Little Toy isn’t a track begging for relevance or posture for revival points. It simply kicks the door down, chortling all the way. For a band that’s already lived one life and come back for another, that confidence feels earned.
Listen to My Little Toy below and order the single here.
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