Toby TomTom's debut, "Sun is Going Down," isn't going out of his way to sugarcoat or avoid the state of the world. Instead, he throws himself into it and weaves together introspection, revolt, and raw hope into a sound that's both classic and newly urgent.
The track throbs with funky basslines, crunch guitar licks, and a vocal delivery that sounds at once like an invocation and like a sermon from a returnee from the eye of the storm. "Sun is Going Down" was a musical statement by TomTom and a personal reckoning. It's a song of soul-searching and decision-making, deciding to speak, fight, and believe.
"The world we're in kept playing over my head," he says. That started playing on a loop in my mind, and that was the beating heart of this song. And the result? A song that doesn't blink. It looks the twilight directly in the eye and challenges you to hope the sun will rise again.
Here with "Sun is Going Down," Toby TomTom is giving you a musical mirror to hold up to who we are, what we're fighting against, and the big ass funk the truth carries in it when it's strained through fire and feels.