Toydrum are 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.

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Toydrum's key film and television credits include Apple TV's flagship drama Slow Horses (starring Gary Oldman and Kristen Scott-Thomas) which they co-compose with Daniel Pemberton and received Ivor Novello and Emmy nominations, Disney+’s music documentary Camden showcasing the borough’s history of music, Amazon's Three Pines starring Alfred Molina, and Alice Lowe's comedy horror debut feature Prevenge, which received glowing reviews at TIFF and Venice Film Festival. The soundtrack was released on Invada Records and featured in both Empire and Fact Magazine's score of the year lists in 2018. The duo have also scored Alice Lowe's feature Timestalker, which premiered at SXSW in Spring 2024.

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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.

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Toydrum's television work includes 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.

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In 2014 James and Pablo released their first 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.