Perhaps better known for being the femme-fatale, vocal attack of blues rockers wht.rbbt.obj, River Toussaint has a neat second string to her musical bow in the trip-hop meets brooding pop of her solo path. “Put Down By Love” tells you everything you need to know about this majestic sonic side hustle.
Blending slow, 90’s trip-hop grooves with jazz-age echoes, dark modern pop with slow-burning R&B, and garageland rock and roll with incendiary soul, this is a meeting of sonic worlds. Not only do you marvel at the music variance of these colliding sonic entities, but you will be awestruck at just how many different identities you find working together, identities and elements that up until now had no business being on the same bill as each other, let alone in the same song.
And that is the art of making new music, in my opinion, not to ignore the past but to put it to work for you, and what River Toussaint does so brilliantly here is to make those succulent past sonic glories sound as of-the-moment, as seductive and exciting as they did when they were first created.
It’s all about being fresh and familiar, appealing to people’s comfort zones and sense of adventure simultaniously. And that is precisely what is happening here.
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