★★★★★
Three albums in, Chaz Bundick's solo project Toro y Moi has leapfrogged blissy, computer-fog peers, and now sounds less and less like a hypothetical band. January's
- www.austinchronicle.com
2013-10-03
★★★★★
Three albums in, Chaz Bundick's solo project Toro y Moi has leapfrogged blissy, computer-fog peers, and now sounds less and less like a hypothetical band. January's
- www.austinchronicle.com
2013-10-02
★★★★★
The summer of 2010 was the season of chillwave. Indie music got swallowed up by ethereal synth chords and lo-fi vocals filtered through layers of haze, fuzz and a languid West Coast disposition. Chaz Bundick, better known as Toro y Moi, was one of its pioneers. Since then, the 26-year-old producer/songwriter moved to California from South Carolina and, ironically, is steering away from the sub-genre he helped define...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
It can be difficult to gain a balanced perspective on an album after reading a single summary of the music. Bias can tilt a review, as can personal taste, history and just about everything else that is unique to the person writing it. So in an effort to offer an expanded perspective in such a medium, here are three reactions, three impressions, three takes on Anything in Return by Toro Y Moi...
- www.reviler.org
2013-02-19
★★★★★
Modern music is a confusing landscape. With so much innovation, the boundaries of what we once felt comfortable with have blurred. Obviously, it's natural that as a listener we need to make sense of it all, to process and file every sonic sub-genre, cataloging our music collection, pinning our butterflies. However, as an artist at the forefront of a movement those labels can be a weighty mantle to bear if you let them anchor you down...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-02-18
★★★★★
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The Chaz Bundick project known as Toro y Moi is probably most readily associated with the subgenre known as chillwave--according to legend, a genre he pioneered...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2013-02-11
★★★★★
After years of unfair neglect, "Pop" is beginning to slip back into acceptable vocabulary. 'Call Me Maybe' cemented the revolution; a song that might've otherwise expected a similar reception to lukewarm powder-mix custard being served in a fine-dining establishment was adored and sung along to almost unanimously. Only last week Justin Timberlake launched a teaser video that showed him sauntering moodily around his house MTV Cribs-style, before dramatically husking "I'm ready"...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2013-02-11
★★★★★
Chaz Bundick nearly had us all fooled. His undeniably ambitious work ethic, coupled with an unruffled hairdo and modest twinkle in interviews, almost made us succumb to his unbalanced musical sketches. However, behind the genteel manner and his pair of perfectly circular specs, too frequently his work feels like the result of someone with talent not yet knowing how to put it across in a focused way...
- thequietus.com
2013-02-08
★★★★★
Carpark On Anything In Return, his third album under the moniker Toro Y Moi, sonic wunderkind Chaz Bundick injects an old-school hip-hop flavor into his signature chillwave sound. Inspired by a move to Berkeley, Calif., and the adjustment period of a new city and new coast, bold beats are juxtaposed with trilling keys, falsetto-laden vocals, and ambient sampling to make this audio savant's most accessible and infectious effort to date...
- www.relix.com
2013-02-06
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