TORO Y MOI
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Music
When South Carolina native Chaz Bundick first began releasing music under the moniker Toro Y Moi, his summery electropop sound was among the first to be grouped with the chillwave movement of summer 2009. With his debut full-length, 2010’s Causers of This, Bundick rose to the top of the genre, embarking upon a series of tours and expanding his solo project into a full band. Now, Bundick has overhauled his style completely with more organic instrumentation and clearer sonics, and on February 22nd will release his sophomore LP, Underneath the Pine, via Carpark Records. There’s not much chillwaving to be found on dance floor-ready tracks like “New Beat” and “Still Sound,” which ditch his previous woozy tape edits for booty-shaking basslines and space-age keyboards that hearken back to the immaculate polish of classics by Air and Stereolab.
