Audio By Carbonatix
With the recent release of the latest Toro Y Moi album, Anything in Return, Chaz Bundick should be able to transcend the chillwave label that’s been assigned to him by countless critics. Like his friend and mutual mentor Ernest Green of Washed Out, Bundick started his project as an entirely solo endeavor undertaken by someone who had learned to make electronic music but was also no stranger to conventional instrumentation. By the time of 2011’s Underneath the Pine, Toro Y Moi had grown into a full live band, even though Bundick continued to write all the songs. In a group context, there’s a noticeable depth of compositional development present that’s only hinted at in solo performances. But from the beginning, Toro Y Moi’s music has been a soulful, funk-inflected dream pop that soothes as much as it sparks the imagination.
