Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return

Toro Y Moi — Anything In Return 

Limited edition "Rose Quartz" colored eco mix vinyl 2LP

Chaz Bear (formerly Bundick) was a musician from birth. Growing up, it was normal to hear music across genres, from Michael Jackson to Elvis Costello to The Specials, in the Bundick household. began playing and recording original compositions in his preteen years, forming multiple indie bands starting in middle school and continuing until his personal project, Toro y Moi, was signed by Carpark Records in 2009.

Anything in Return is the third studio album by Toro y Moi, released on January 22, 2013 by Carpark Records. Of the album, Pitchfork proclaims — "Here's silky R&B, roller-rink pop, bubblegum funk, and tasteful chillout music, all unified by a voice that's grown more confident with time." Toro y Moi describes it as a "bigger sounding album, more accessible and poppy," as he lyrically wrestles between relationship problems and life on the road.

The product of a move from South Carolina to Berkeley, California and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, Toro y Moi's third full-length, Anything in Return, puts Chaz Bundick right in the middle of the producer/songwriter dichotomy that his first two albums established.

The producer's hand is prominent — not least in the sampled "yeah"s and "uh"s that give the album a hip-hop-indebted confidence — and many of the songs feature the 4/4 beats and deftly employed effects usually associated with house music. Tracks such as "High Living" and "Day One" show a considerably Californian influence, their languid funk redolent of a West Coast temperament, and elsewhere — not least on lead single, "So Many Details" — the record plays with darker atmospheres than we're used to hearing from Toro y Moi. Sounding quite assured in what some may call this songwriter's return to producerhood, Anything in Return is Bundick uninhibited by issues of genre, an album that feels like the artist's essence.

 

1. Harm in Change

2. Say That

3. So Many Details

4. Rose Quartz

5. Touch

6. Cola

7. Studies

8. High Living

9. Grown Up Calls

10. Cake

11. Day One

12. Never Matter

13. How's It Wrong

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