Freaking Out

After switching things up with this year's ambitious LP Underneath the Pine, Chaz Bundick  turns toward sweetly catchy and more explicitly funky 80s-tinged dancefloor jams.

Never has the funk been so explicit and immediate in Toro Y Moi’s sound.

After two records that established him as one of the guiding lights (if not THE guiding light) of the chillwave wave, Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bundick released an EP that is less of a stopgap between releases than it is a further refining and expanding of his hazy, chopped-out sound that falls somewhere between Christopher Cross, A.R. Kane, and Prince, only cooked up on a computer in the corner of a crowded bedroom instead of in a brightly lit studio.