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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.

Songs

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The Difference
Flume
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Rose Quartz
Toro y Moi
3
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So Many Details
Toro y Moi
4
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Ordinary Pleasure
Toro y Moi
5
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Grown Up Calls
Toro y Moi

Albums

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Hole Erth

Album • 2024
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Underneath the Pine (Instrumentals)

Album • 2021
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Boo Boo

Album • 2017
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Sandhills

EP • 2023
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Causers of This (Instrumentals)

Album • 2020
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Star Stuff

Album • 2017
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Anything In Return (Instrumentals)

Album • 2023
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Outer Peace

Album • 2019
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MAHAL

Album • 2022
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Toro Y Rome Vol. 1

EP • 2018

Singles

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Genius of Love

2024
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Sweet Tea / Take My Car

2013
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I Will Talk to You b/w For No Reason

2011
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Ordinary Guy (feat. The Mattson 2)

2020
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Campo b/w Outside With You

2013
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Leave Everywhere

2010
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The Difference (feat. Toro y Moi)

2020
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Lyin (Pt. 1-4) b/w Would Be

2013
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Omaha

2017
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So Many Details

2012

Videos

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The Difference (feat. Toro y Moi)

Flume • 195K views

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Indietronica Essentials

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LA Sunshine

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Genre Blurring

Playlist • YouTube Music
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CREDITS: El Guincho

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A Happy Alternative

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Shoes Off

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Indie on Repeat

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'10s Indie + Alternative

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OK Commuter

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Left-Field Hip Hop

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