"When things get weird, I get small / Didn’t say what I meant at all / Wish you could be more for me..."
The unbridled alt jazz pop pummel of "More For Me" by Toronto-based, Alberta-born indie artist TOVI, the musical moniker singer-songwriter / multi-instrumentalist Rebecca Emms, is brazenly raucous and demure at the very same time and therein lies it magic and magnetism. I love the barreling drums (maybe against machine beats) played by Toronto producer Josh Korody as they not only push the track forward but are a definable character of the track just like the bevy of soaring sax embellishments that gingerly push against dissonant invisible walls. The other most definable character, of course, are Emms layered hushed vocal harmonies that too lean into jazz dipped dissonance at times.
Smitten with "More For Me" and with the sometimes curious lyrics that float on the artful abstractions.
When things get weird, I get small
Didn’t say what I meant at all
Wish you could be more for me
Your big brown eyes, the Berlin Wall
Maybe this means fuck all
Wish you could be more for me
I caught myself in a dumb smile
Floated there for a little while
Wish you could be more
Wish you could be more
Wish you could be more for me
Didn’t say what I meant at all
Wish you could be more for me
Your big brown eyes, the Berlin Wall
Maybe this means fuck all
Wish you could be more for me
I caught myself in a dumb smile
Floated there for a little while
Wish you could be more
Wish you could be more
Wish you could be more for me
Rebecca Emms shares this about the track:
“This song is about having avoidant tendencies — not being able to say the hard things or ask for what I need. It’s about only getting knee-deep and missing out because of it.”
In the final analysis "More For Me" feels like a theme song for the next Netflix binger, the story being a dramatic unreal mystery.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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TOVI is the synth-rock project of Red Deer, Alberta/Toronto-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Rebecca Emms With a background in both classical and jazz music, Emms has carved a style all her own the indie music scene, described as “noirish, melancholic pop music powered by big hip-hop drums” (Ian Steaman, CBC Music). Evoking the ethereal melancholia of Portishead to Lana Del Rey, and dark playfulness of Gorillaz, TOVI’s production style will draw you in, and her clever songwriting will keep you hooked.
TOVI’s debut full-length album I Keep Floating Away (self-released, 2022) was produced & mixed by Josh Korody and mastered by Jesse F Keeler (MSTRKRFT, Death From Above 1979). In 2020 she collaborated with Japanese Grammy-nominated producer starRo on a single “Ceiling”, which was featured in a national Sapporo beer ad campaign. Her debut EP Midnight Hum (2018), earned her a Western Canadian Music Award nomination. Much of TOVI’s music has been featured in Exclaim, Dominionated, Cups N Cakes, Indie88, and played on CBC radio, Antena 3 (Portugal) and has charted on campus radio across Canada.
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