LA Indie Rapper ToBy Playing NYC – Headlining May 17, supporting Johan Lenox May 26 – Debut Album L’Esprit Out Now
“With his debut album, L’Esprit, the Miami rapper returns with an eleven-track offering that melds together ToBy’s disparate influences, manifesting as a unique blend of pop, hip-hop, R&B, alternative rock, and cinematic ambiance that you’ll have to hear to believe.” – Ones To Watch
“His debut album cufflinks deeply intimate moments with a dazzling and wide open sound as ToBy chronicles some of the struggles and triumphs he’s had as a person and musician… The result is an album that testifies as hard as it rocks.” – Grimy Goods
“L’Esprit stirs and stuns with passion, purpose, and feverish feeling. He [ToBy] pours his heart out in an intimate and vulnerable multidimensional record that longs for release, recognition, and ultimately, understanding.” – Atwood Magazine
“Any attempt to pin ToBy down should feel utterly fruitless just a few songs into his album debut.. Maintaining fairly loose bounds serves him well throughout, allowing him (and, through archival recordings, his Haitian grandmother) to tell a transformative personal story in an aptly creative and unconventional manner.” – Cabbages
“You can think of any genre of music, and it is probably in the Miami native’s debut album, L’Esprit. He brings these wide variety of sounds together to make an overall, cohesive and quite frankly, beautiful project.” – Sheesh Media
LA Indie Rapper
ToBy
Performing In NYC, Headlining May 17
Supporting Johan Lenox May 26
Debut Album L’Esprit Out Now via Magnetic Moon Records
MAY 13, 2022 (New York, NY) – Following the release of his genre-bending debut album L’Esprit last year, LA-based indie rapper ToBy will be coming to NYC for two very special performances. He will be playing his first ever east coast headlining show on Tuesday, May 17 at Arlene’s Grocery at 7:00 PM. Tickets can be found here. On Thursday, May 26 at 9:00pm, he will be performing at Mercury Lounge, supporting Jonah Lenox. Tickets can. be found here.
Photo Credit: Natalia Fernandez
Blending elements of modern rap music, introspective pop, and indie rock, L’Esprit follows a narrative that is loosely based on ToBy himself, constituting his most personal work to date. It details specific instances in ToBy’s life involving depression, anxiety, grief, lost romance, and self doubt with the intent of connecting with listeners who have similar stories. The 11-track album showcases ToBy’s versatility as an artist perfectly. On L’Esprit, ToBy bounces from different genre and mood effortlessly, while the record as a whole still remains a cohesive body of work
Says ToBy: “I hope people take away that they are not super alone in this world. I hope that by hearing my story and hearing me bare out my soul, as this is the most personal music I have ever made and I have never injected this much of my real life in my music before, people take away that the enormity of life is so grand and so vast and so much that the most we can do is experience it to its fullest; all the good, all the bad, and all the in-between.”
L’Esprit by ToBy is out now via Magnetic Moon Records across all DSPs.
ToBy – L’Esprit
1. Let It Go – Winter
2. Boyfriend
3. Day By Day
4. 2FUKKINCOCKY
5. Want Me To Do
6. Remind Me
7. Sinners
8. Ghost
9. Are We Ridin
10. Similar Road
11. 40 Miles
