leopard scarf style behind. His

"I LOVE THE ELECTRIC guitar-like, a cheesy 'U.
S.
A' sound, " says Trinidad-born, Brooklyn-raised rapper/singer Theophilus London, slinking down on a futon in the NYLON offices in New York City to a position where he can more convincingly strum at imaginary strings.
"It sounds so good over rap music.
There's only a few guys who know that.
" He sits louis vuitton replica handbags up, grins, and says definitively: "Don't settle for the back-up church bands.
Get some fucking sexy dudes on the guitar, you know what I'm saying? " London, who dropped his debut full-length, Timez Are Weird These Dayz, in July, first gained notoriety in 2009 with his self-released This Charming Mixtape.
(No anxiety of influence here: The Morrissey fanboy also recreated Louis Vuitton Messenger bag singer Leon Ware's album cover photo for Timez Are Weird and talks excitedly about a "Michael Jackson-era" jacket he recently had customized.
) But despite his DIY beginnings, London says that when it came time to lay down a proper record (with Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio and Santigold producer John Hill) he was ready to leave his louis vuitton leopard scarf style behind.
His Warner Bros.
EP Lovers Holiday (released in February) introduced a more radio-ready slickness, and this polished sound is even more apparent on his newest endeavor.
London took voice lessons to smooth his vocals for tracks like "Why Even Try" and studied '70s and '80s-era songwriters like Quincy Jones to reach the "spiritual" level of composition he desired.



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