Toro Y Moi

Toro Y Moi - June 2009

Lo-fi pop trinkets and demos from chillwave pioneer

23 Mar 2012

(Carpark) Chillwave pioneer and Carolina native Chazwick Bundick follows up last year’s second release Underneath the Pine with further lo-fi pop trinkets dating back to June 2009 (hence the title), which should be stacked alongside the likes of his…

Clubbers' Decktionary: Chillwave

A guide to the myriad genres of clubbing, from Devil Disco DJ Hobbes

17 Oct 2011

Chillwave aka glo fi, proper noun. Generally down-tempo to mid-tempo (ie 80–120 bpm) danceable American indie/electro-pop style; usually made by solo artists with a laptop or small outfits; predominantly influenced by 80s analogue and electronica…

Photo gallery: Stag and Dagger - Sat 21 May 2011, Glasgow

Toro Y Moi, Clinic and Ghostpoet captured at Glasgow all-dayer

1 Jun 2011

Photography from Glasgow leg of the fourth annual multi-venue Stag & Dagger festival, featuring Conquering Animal Sound, Warpaint and Ghostpoet. All photography by Alex Woodward at Crimson Glow Photography

Stag & Dagger Festival Glasgow - Sat 21 May

Warpaint, Toro Y Moi and Sons & Daughters ensure Glasgow party is no washout

24 May 2011

You couldn’t blame Stag & Dagger for the torrential rain that fell from Glasgow skies for the duration of the all-dayer’s third instalment in the city, though better planning on organisers’ behalf might have lessened time spent getting drenched. Using…

Various Artists - Fuck Dance, Let’s Art

26 Oct 2010

(K7) For all of its swearing and sloganeering, Fuck Dance Let’s Art: Sounds from a New American Underground comes on less like a counter-cultural snapshot and more like a cash-in on the hipster genres variously tagged as chill-wave, dream-pop…

Foals and Toro Y Moi set for UK tour

Five reasons to go see nu-prog double header

26 Oct 2010

For their lies, for their sweet little lies Foals (pictured) are not baby horses, we can tell you that. And Toro Y Moi is not a bull. The former is a Mercury-nominated art-rock quintet from Oxford. The latter is one Chazwick Bundick: a hazy…

Toro Y Moi brings warped pop to Glasgow

Chaz Bundick brings chillwave to Captains Rest

23 Jul 2010

Almost as enjoyable as the sound of a man tripping out in Yosemite Park at the sight of a double rainbow, (that viral YouTube hit of unbridled ecstasy has been causing no end of delight at The List) is the blissed-out, woozy, warm fuzz of Chaz Bundick’s…

Toro Y Moi - Causers of This

17 Feb 2010

(Car Park) Toro Y Moi is Martian-talk for ‘pissed-up, blissed-out pop’. Or so South Carolinian electro-bard Chaz Bundick would have us believe on Causers of This – his computer-engendered, patchouli-infused and entirely affable debut album. Tipping…