Toro y Moi - Mahal

Chaz comes through with a cute, catchy, and colorful little concept album.

Toro y Moi - Outer Peace

Synth funk and alternative R&B aesthetics clash on Toro y Moi's latest album.

Toro Y Moi - What For?

Toro Y Moi's latest album is a sweet, catchy blend of disco and psychedelic pop, backed by some of the project's best songs yet.

Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return

On this new album, Toro Y Moi is able to maintain many of the grooves that have continually made this project interesting, but the newly added vocal samples, vocal experiments, and songs don't go over well much of the time.

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Gremlins- Self-Titled

An odd collaboration between Mat Cothran (Coma Cinema), Patrick Jeffords (Toro Y Moi), Katie Lee (Braids), and Sam Ray (Ricky Eat Acid) has released a five-track EP. It's backed by a lot of dark, sleazy synthesizers that produce some really appealing jams. Vocals are primarily performed by Cothran, and the lyrics seem to be very much like his other projects as well.

The bass and drums create some pretty compelling head bobbing grooves as well. As gloomy and dark as the humming synthesizers can be there is still a lighter side to the arrangements, giving these tunes far more dimension and depth. This is not at all a collaboration that I was expecting, but after hearing it I definitely want more.

Toro Y Moi- "How I Know"

In the new video for Toro y Moi's Underneath The Pine cut "How I Know," three friends explore a haunted house late at night. Over the course of the next three minutes, they all die spectacular deaths. One suffocates on bubble gum, one gets electrocuted by spaghetti, and one of the guys actually ends up getting decapitated by a loose DVD. By the end, they're all ghosts, and a ghostly dance party ensues. A chillwaver's play on the witch house phenomenon, perhaps?

Underneath The Pine is out now on Carpark Records. Buy it at Insound Vinyl here.

Watch a review of Underneath the Pine here.

Remixes: Tyler, The Creator / Boards of Canada / Gold Panda

1. Goldmund- Turquoise Hexagon Sun (Boards of Canada Cover)

2. Gold Panda's Marriage EP

3.Tyler, The Creator- French (Toro Y Moi Remix)

4. Suckers- Black Sheep (RAC Remix) -

Toro Y Moi- Underneath the Pine

Toro Y Moi's latest LP is a noticeable improvement compared to the sketchbook of ideas that made up his last album, Causers of this. Underneath the Pine is loaded with light, pretty arrangements and dancey disco beats. The songwriting and vocals aren't always standout, though. While the whole album may not feel standout, it's a nice and easygoing experience, for sure. Great for soundtracking a small get together or an all-night sexcapade.

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