Toby TomTom - Black Swan
Black Swan - Toby TomTom (R&B) Toby TomTom delivers something truly unique with fresh feel good jam “Black Swan.” The first thing that jumps out about the track is that it defies genre—there’s certainly an R&B leaning, especially with the vocals, but it also ventures into EDM, funk and soul to create an avant garde experience. The collection of sounds shouldn’t work together, and yet they do, creating a sort of future R&B—we could see this being a natural evolution of say, Outkast’s 00s music. What stands out the most is the incorporation of atmospherics into the general flow, from a crunchy sizzle sound to bird chirping to various video game and techno effects that layer on to make a complex and multi-level listening experience. It’s musical ASMR.