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Hij wordt al op een hoopje gegooid met Neon Indian, Washed Out en Picture Plane. Er zijn stijlnamen verzonnen als chillwave en glo-fi. Toro Y Moi, die zijn belastingformulier met de naam Chaz Bundi... Lees meer

The first of two full-lengths to be released this year by South Carolina’s laptop symphonist Toro Y Moi, Causers of This is a remarkably confident suite of pop gems. Over gelatinous rhythms, washed... Lees meer

Ready, Set, Glow! I’d take sides but the point is already moot. Between that interview last fall and the present day, glo-fi or chillwave or whatever you want to call it has become an eye-rolling g... Lees meer

In his humble home studio, producer/musician Toro Y Moi complicates his ultimately easygoing lo-fi psyche-pop with glitzy nuances and meandering, sampled swells of sound. Causers of This isn’t goin... Lees meer

When you willingly write and record music that belongs to a genre known as “chillwave," you’re all but ensuring that your music will have a short shelf-life. In the dead of winter, the washed-out,... Lees meer

The process of sensory memory is completed and discarded within milliseconds, before the cognitive mind has the opportunity to acknowledge it. For a fraction of a moment, an image seen, a sound hea... Lees meer

When 'Blessa' billows in on a cloud of reverb and warped tiki ambience it's tempting to jump to the conclusion that Toro y Moi are peddling yet another simplification of the unstable beachside blis... Lees meer

I imagine the advent of glo-fi (or chillwave, or whatever you want to call it) as a golden age for car commercials. I say that with no snark intended; god knows I enjoy Neon Indian's "Deadbeat Sum... Lees meer

Yes, ok I admit it, Toro Y Moi’sCausers Of This sounds similar to Animal Collective and Panda Bear. But now we’ve got all these narrow-minded pop references out of the way, we can focus on this... Lees meer

While wholly generic, to the position of near-pastiche at times, the debut long-player from Toro Y Moi – aka South Carolina’s Chaz Bundick – is nevertheless engrossing and enterta... Lees meer