Toe have their own record label, Machupicchu Industrias. It's not so much to flaunt a punklike DIY ethic, they're basically just slow.

Based out of Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture, the instrumental math-rock (a genre characterized by angular rhythms and complex time signatures) quartet created the imprint in 2006 so they could control their own schedules.

"We like to release albums at our own pace," says Toe's guitarist Hirokazu Yamazaki. "That's the best timing for us. Now we don't have to be concerned with how long has passed between albums."