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Toya Delazy Due Drop

Toya Delazy Due Drop

“I like this,” declares Toya on spunky electro-pop tease “Are You Gonna Stay”. It’s a fly invitation onto the dance floor. It’s also an unabashedly commercial chart attack, her “careful, sexy and trendy” lyrical come-on soundtracked by hyper-slick synth swathes, sequenced drums and an auto-tuned vocal veil last worn by the likes of Lily Allen.

“I like this,” declares Toya on spunky electro-pop tease “Are You Gonna Stay”. It’s a fly invitation onto the dance floor. It’s also an unabashedly commercial chart attack, her “careful, sexy and trendy” lyrical come-on soundtracked by hyper-slick synth swathes, sequenced drums and an auto-tuned vocal veil last worn by the likes of Lily Allen. Dance-floor filler? Not quite. While “Heart” nibbles at the retro-pop glee of oh-so-Eighties starlets Santigold and Grimes, it’s without their ennui. Still, Delazy’s music does have a message. “Yeah Hell Yeah (With You)” is a spiky, vocoder-ed ode to her libidinal instincts. She isn’t only obsessed with getting her freak on, though. “I’m looking for love” she implores on R-rated pop-rap breeze “Love is in the Air”. “It seems to me like a wonderful mystery” she muses on broken-hearted ballad “Love Takes Time”. She’s not averse to baring her feelings in a variety of settings either. “Memoriam” is a downbeat electro ballad comfort about the loss of love and life. “It’s All Good” channels Corinne Bailey Rae’s uplifting Brit-soul pop smile and on “Jai Lover” she swings to a smooth Sade tribal jazzy house sigh. But “Pump it On” is the real banger as Delazy finds the sass in her strut with some pulse-quickening seize-the-day sentiments (“One life, one love, one flow”). It’s just a pity that the preponderance of auto-tune blunts the beauty of these odes to self-expression (“Say It Out”).

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