MP3: I/O – You Slay Me

After spinning I/O’s debut tape a couple months back and not having felt pummeled round the head by it, his new track ‘You Slay Me’ manages to do quite the opposite. In some ways it’s quite Oceany, by way of Miguel with a bit of (criminally slept on) Cocaine 80s. The song has a driving through a Californian desert at night on the way to a seedy motel feel about it – liquored up guitar strums meeting light-headed vocals with a masochistic love-addict tone. Whilst the smart input/output epithet (a play on his name Ayo ) shows some logic and style is definitely there for a forward thinking R&B artist with a crossover sensibility… it’s good to hear him really developing that tangibly on ‘You Slay Me’.