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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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Rose Quartz
Toro y Moi
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The Difference
Flume
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So Many Details
Toro y Moi
4
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Ordinary Pleasure
Toro y Moi
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Freelance
Toro y Moi

Albums

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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

Singles & EPs

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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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Campo b/w Outside With You

Single • 2013
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All Ur Luv

EP • 2024
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Omaha

Single • 2017
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Sandhills

EP • 2023
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Trance Zen Dental Spa

EP • 2015

Videos

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The Difference (feat. Toro y Moi)

Flume • 196K views

Featured on

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OK Commuter

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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Indietronica Essentials

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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LA Sunshine

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Indie Dance Party

Playlist • YouTube Music
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'10s Indie + Alternative

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Homesick

Playlist • YouTube Music

Playlists by Toro y Moi

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Official Music Videos

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 210K views
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MAHAL Music Videos

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 7.5K views
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Toro y Moi 'MAHAL' Visualizers

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 34K views
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Toro y Moi - Hole Erth

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 7.4K views
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Toro y Moi - Sandhills Official Videos

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 3.2K 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 • 6.4K views
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MAHAL Listening Party

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 7.9K views
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Anything In Return

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 6.2K views

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