“Chaz Bear delivers a smartly crafted, comfortably mid-fi album of grooves and melancholy—it’s one of his best albums in years.”
“Toro Y Moi's Outer Peace is an exercise in playful exploration”
“Synth funk and alternative R&B aesthetics clash on Toro y Moi's latest album.”
“Take a glance at social media right now, and everybody is sharing embarrassing old photos from a decade ago. A year defined by comically proportioned fringes, as we posed with bottles of Smirnoff Ice and puffed on soggy, poorly-rolled spliffs, 2009 was a huge year for chillwave, the dreamy bedroom pop genre coined by the blogosphere. The following year, Toro Y Moi’s debut album ‘Causers of This ‘ ”
“Toro Y Moi’s Chaz Bear was one of the architects of chillwave – one of the brightest-burning, most creatively short-lived instalments in the story of modern alternative music – but his hypnagogic phase is all just hazy nostalgia now. His string of albums in recent years have been an exercise in proving that he is unbound by trends, culminating in the ambient-inflected ‘Boo Boo’ in 2017. On this s”
