What For?

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AlbumApr 07 / 201510 songs, 36m 43s
Psychedelic Pop Indie Rock
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6.6 / 10

Toro Y Moi’s new album serves as further evidence that malleability is the project's most endearing quality. If What For? is Chaz Bundick’s "indie rock album," the "rock" part is a vestigial appendage: This is guitar music without abrasion or yearning.

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The musical evolution of Chaz Bundick, a.k.a. Toro Y Moi, is characterized by such dramatic stylistic leaps of faith over such a short period of time that it’s as though he’s executing a progression plotted out years ago. That kind of calculation is prudent for an artist to emerge from a sub-genre as limiting as…

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Not resting for a moment, Chaz Bundick aka Toro Y Moi picks up the guitar again for his incredibly melodious fourth full-length.

An homage to golden days.

It's not easy to pin down Toro y Moi and Chaz Bundick.

The laptop of his earlier chillwave outings now fully unplugged, Chazwick Bundick's fourth album as Toro Y Moi is, in essence, pure psychedelic rock.

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The distance Chaz Bundick has established between himself and short-lived chillwave fad of the late 2000s is nothing short of impressive, le...

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Chaz Bundick, the recording artist whose music most often bears the name Toro y Moi, is a busy chameleon of a producer.

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Review of 'What For?' the new album from Toro Y moi, the full-length comes out April 7th via Carpark Records. The lead single "Empty Nesters" is now out.

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Album Reviews: Toro Y Moi - What For?

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