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Toro y Moi

Toro y Moi’s ‘Sandhills’ is both a tender love letter to Chaz Bear’s hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, and a poignant, bittersweet acceptance that one can never really go back home. Recalling Sufjan’s ‘Seven Swans’ or Karen O’s soundtrack work for ‘Where The Wild Things Are,’ these loping folk-pop songs are themselves a sort of Saturn return, reminiscent of Bear's first handmade CD-Rs as Toro y Moi. Bear gave them out to friends in the earliest days of the moniker, the releases stuffed in the Case Logic visor of their cars, and each listen brings a little more of that detail to life: the mall after which 'Sandhills' is named; the teenaged friends spending aimless hours there, full of big ennui and bigger dreams; the late-capitalist decline and empty big box stores of Sandhills today. Chaz Bear, Toro y Moi, is now a globally beloved indie-pop icon. But 'Sandhills', with its banjo and lap steel flourishes and its wide-eyes wonder, concedes that you never quite totally rid yourself of those adolescent blues. You might just, if you're lucky, develop better mechanisms (or delusions!) with which to handle them. Clear eyes, full hearts, sweet jams, can’t lose. Lyrically deft and deceptively heartbreaking, ‘Sandhills’ may be a brief pit stop between grand statements from Bear, but it’s brimming with rust, guts, big moods and love.

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The Difference

2

Rose Quartz

3

So Many Details

4

Ordinary Pleasure

5

Freelance

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What For? (Instrumentals)

2025

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Underneath the Pine (Instrumentals)

2021

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Star Stuff

2017

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Hole Erth

2024

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Causers of This (Instrumentals)

2020

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What For?

2015

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Anything In Return (Instrumentals)

2023

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Outer Peace

2019

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MAHAL

2022

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Boo Boo

2017

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Our House

Single • 2025

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Sandhills

EP • 2023

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Trance Zen Dental Spa

EP • 2015

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Stars And Sons / Almost Crimes

Single • 2025

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Ordinary Guy (feat. The Mattson 2)

Single • 2020

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Sweet Tea / Take My Car

Single • 2013

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Genius of Love

Single • 2024

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Toro Y Rome Vol. 1

EP • 2018

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All Ur Luv

EP • 2024

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Omaha

Single • 2017

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The Difference (feat. Toro y Moi)

Flume • 197K views

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Freelance

Toro y Moi • 6.3M views

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Low Shoulder

Toro y Moi • 1.4M views

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Rose Quartz

Toro y Moi • 11M views

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Say That

Toro y Moi • 6.4M views

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The Loop

Toro y Moi • 584K views

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So Many Details

Toro y Moi • 10M views

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New Beat

Toro y Moi • 3.1M views

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Ordinary Pleasure

Toro y Moi • 4.2M views

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Girl Like You

Toro y Moi • 3.4M views

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The Loop (Live)

Toro y Moi • 6.3K views

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Goes By So Fast

Toro y Moi • 5.2K views

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Déjà Vu (Live)

Toro y Moi • 2.6K views

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Mississippi (Live)

Toro y Moi • 3.1K views

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The Medium (Live)

Toro y Moi • 3.7K views

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Last Year

Toro y Moi • 4.1K views

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Way Too Hot

Toro y Moi • 1.5K views

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Last Year

Toro y Moi • 2.5K views

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Goes By So Fast

Toro y Moi • 9.2K views

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Postman

Toro y Moi • 2.4K views

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LA Sunshine

Playlist • YouTube Music

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A Happy Alternative

Playlist • YouTube Music

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Sunshine Indie

Playlist • YouTube Music

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'10s Indie + Alternative

Playlist • YouTube Music

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Homesick

Playlist • YouTube Music

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Celebrate APAHM

Playlist • YouTube Music

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Chill Indie Beats

Playlist • YouTube Music

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Shoes Off

Playlist • YouTube Music

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Indie Dance Party

Playlist • YouTube Music

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OK Commuter

Playlist • YouTube Music

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Official Music Videos

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 211K views

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Toro y Moi - Hole Erth

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 7.9K views

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Boo Boo

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 4.1K views

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Toro y Moi 'MAHAL' Visualizers

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 35K views

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MAHAL Music Videos

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 7.5K views

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Toro y Moi - Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 3.8K views

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Live Performances + Sessions

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 14K views

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Toro y Moi - MAHAL (Live from Big Sur)

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 6.8K views

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MAHAL Listening Party

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 8.2K views

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Anything In Return

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 6.2K views

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Mk.gee

274K monthly audience

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Neon Indian

81.5K monthly audience

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Jai Paul

8.3K subscribers

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra

325K monthly audience

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Flying Lotus

459K monthly audience

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The Avalanches

423K monthly audience

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Little Dragon

222K monthly audience

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Mr Twin Sister

12.5K subscribers

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Washed Out

211K monthly audience

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strongboi

106K monthly audience