Underneath The Pine
Underneath the Pine finds Chaz Bundick largely shedding his synth-pop roots in favor of a vastly expanded instrumental palette.
Hoping to escape the reductive “chillwave” tag, Chaz Bundick’s second album as Toro Y Moi finds the blissed-out electro-pop producer foregoing that bastard subgenre’s samples for completely organic instruments. Granted, Underneath The Pine is still pretty chill: Bundick’s music evokes an amber-colored nostalgia for…
This is not the bedroom-project we heard in 2010. Underneath The Pine has Chaz Bundick coming together like an externalized…
Toro y Moi's debut record, Causers of This, fit firmly in the newly formed chillwave tradition.
After the success of Toro Y Moi’s debut release, ‘Causers of This’, Chaz Bundick quickly became an unassuming chief purveyor of yet another bastard genre.
Formless melodies bleed into one another, and tracks come and go without much effort or care in announcing their arrival or departure.