Ric from ToyQueens manages with this release to start carving a fresh niche for himself. A brand of RnB that’s melodic and also rocking. With suggestive lyrics and dynamic vocal sensibilities that don’t conform to the genre’s usual nasal and sleepy styles, yet don’t fall so far away either.
ToyQueens hail from Brighton, UK. A young talent that does it all. Responsible for the production and the composition from A to Z, he is definitely a hard worker. OBVIOUS is -in his own words- a love song, one that has a catchy hook and firey verses. The vocals range from trembling, vulnerable verses that rise and fall, displaying Ric’s impressive control, to swaggering hooks that have a screamo appeal. The monotonous melodies are perfectly nuanced with all of the vocal inflections and imperfections that make this vocal track an absolute piece of work.
Heartfelt -or well-acted- with strong lyrics and simple, complimentary musical choices, ToyQueens’s latest work is a catchy pop tune that deserves radio time, while retaining interesting arrangement details and nuances that prove Ric as not a follower of trends, but a potential setter of them.