Toro y Moi

Add Date: February 22 

Artist: Toro y Moi 

Album: Underneath the Pine 

Label: Carpark 

Genre: Electropop, funk, pop 

Comments: Causers of This, the debut LP from Chaz Bundick's Toro y Moi project, was an enjoyable collection of reverb-drenched dance pop tunes. But really, chillwave was SO 2010. As soon as last spring, we started to see Bundick branch out on the killer psych-pop 7" "Leave Everywhere," and Underneath the Pine produces more sonic exploration, with some funk, disco, dance-rock and more '60s pop.

From the promoter: "Having spent the year listening to film composers like Ennio Morricone and Francois de Roubaix, Bundick returned to his home in Columbia (S.C.)... to bring his new ideas to fruition. The result of these sessions is an album evocative of R. Stevie Moore's homespun ruminations, David Axelrod's sonic scope, Steve Reich-ian piano phrasing, and the pervasive funk of his first record."

Check out the electro-funk masterpiece "New Beat," the space-rock gem "Light Black" and the post-disco head-nodder "Still Sound."