Toydrum

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Toydrum are BAFTA, Emmy and Ivor Novello nominated musical artist and composer duo, Pablo Clements and James Griffith. The pair met in 2007 when they were both a part of British electronic outfit Unkle. After parting ways with Unkle in 2012, Pablo and James started working together as Toydrum, releasing new music on their Underscore label and pursuing projects in film and television.

Toydrum's score for the fifth season of Slow Horses, which they co-compose with Daniel Pemberton, is currently nominated for an Emmy, with previous seasons of the Apple TV flagship drama, which stars Gary Oldman and Kristen Scott-Thomas, also receiving BAFTA, Ivor Novello and Emmy nominations.

Upcoming projects include the highly anticipated Apple TV thriller Nocturne, which stars Stephen Graham and Liv Schreiber, Prime Video’s superhero series El Gato, created by Eric Carrasco and based on the comic book El Gato Negro, and detective drama series Bishop, starring John Malkovich and Jennifer Jason Leigh, also for Amazon. Toydrum are also scoring the relaunch of the beloved British motoring series The Grand Tour, and season 7 of Slow Horses.

Toydrum’s film work includes a long term collaboration with director and actress Alice Lowe, scoring her critically acclaimed comedy horror Prevenge, and time-travelling musical comedy Timestalker, with both soundtracks released on Invada Records. Other film credits include thriller London Fields starring Billy Bob Thornton and Johnny Depp, Future World starring and directed by James Franco, teen comedy A Guide to Second Date Sex starring George MacKay and Alexandra Roach, the BIFA nominated Sweetheart starring Jo Hartley, EllaRae Smith and Loki's Sophia Di Martini, Chris Smith's horror feature The Banishing starring Sean Harris and John Lynch, and also Smith's feature Detour starring Tye Sheridan, Emory Cohen and Bel Powley, which was shortlisted for Best Score at the BIFA Awards. 

Other TV credits include the recent Netflix documentary Untold UK: Vinnie Jones, Disney+’s music documentary Camden showcasing the town’s history of music, Amazon's Three Pines, starring Alfred Molina, the AMC sci-fi drama Soulmates from Black Mirror writers William Bridges and Brett Goldstein, Sky and HBO's thriller-comedy Two Weeks to Live starring Maisie Williams and Sian Clifford, ITV thriller Deep Water directed by Harry Wootliff and starring Anna Friel and featuring a collaboration with singer-songwriter Beth Orton on the show's title song, and ITV's Tell Me Everything and Platform 7

Toydrum’s artist releases include the EP, Distant Focus Vol. 1, collaborating with artists including Gavin Clark and Joel Wells, and followed a year later with the critically acclaimed album Evangelist. Songs from the album featured heavily on the soundtrack of Shane Meadows’ This is England ’90, and The Virtues. Following releases include 'My Eye On You (To Reinvision)', an album full of reworked Gavin Clark songs, featuring guest artists Nick Cave, Warren Ellis and Trentemoller, and Fields of Madness, a collection of cinematic instrumentals, and collaborations with Alex Mass from Black Angels and James Edward Bagshaw from The Temples.

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