Ethereal, dreamy, and captivating, Toby TomTom’s latest single defies description. The eerily desolate and gorgeous ‘I Need A Yoko’ is an arresting display of the songwriter’s exceptional talent for writing gripping melodies, and crafting mesmerizing atmospheres.
Long Island based singer and songwriter Toby TomTom is exploring the theme of loneliness on his latest single, exploring the love story that bound John Lennon and Yoko Ono. ‘I Need A Yoko’ is eerie and hauntingly gorgeous. The desolate emptiness that TomTom crafts is instantly impactful. Using little more than his acoustic guitar and his voice, TomTom manages to create a vast place that is full of menacing melancholy as well as heart stopping beauty.
It is mostly in the song’s fantastic chord structure, putting a lot of weight on a single chromatically descending note in a 3-chord move, a seesaw of peace and misery that is wonderfully utilized using effects and harrowing synth pads. There is something of grunge to TomTom’s mostly freeform vocal delivery. A certain sense of unconformity as if TomTom’s protagonist is breaking all the rules he ever held, in his search for his Yoko.
Beautiful, lush, artfully simple, and full of personality, Toby TomTom’s latest single is a pretty exploration of loneliness that is carefully orchestrated to sound as lonely as its words imply. ‘I Need A Yoko’ is a brilliantly balanced ballad.