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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

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Rose Quartz

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So Many Details

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Ordinary Pleasure

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Freelance

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The Difference (feat. Toro y Moi)

Flume • 198K views

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Freelance

Toro Y Moi • 6.3M views

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Girl Like You

Toro y Moi • 3.4M views

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Rose Quartz

Toro Y Moi • 11M views

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Say That

Toro y Moi • 6.5M views

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Low Shoulder

Toro Y Moi • 1.4M 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 • 4.3M views

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The Medium (feat. Unknown Mortal Orchestra)

Toro y Moi • 41K views

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Luxury

Toro y Moi & Vinyl Williams • 2.5K views

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Way Too Hot

Toro Y Moi • 1.7K views

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The Medium (Live)

Toro y Moi • 4K views

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Toro y Moi Presents: Soul Trash (feat. Instupendo)

Toro Y Moi • 337K views

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Come Alive (live in Los Angeles)

Chromeo & Toro Y Moi • 33K views

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Last Year

Toro Y Moi • 2.6K views

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The Loop (Live)

Toro y Moi • 7.3K views

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Goes By So Fast

Toro Y Moi • 9.5K views

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Mississippi (Live)

Toro y Moi • 3.3K views

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Goes By So Fast

Toro Y Moi • 5.4K views

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Official Music Videos

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 215K views

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MAHAL Listening Party

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 8.4K views

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Toro y Moi - Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 5.8K views

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Toro y Moi 'MAHAL' Visualizers

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 36K views

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MAHAL Music Videos

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 7.5K views

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Boo Boo

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 4.2K 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 • 7.3K views

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Toro y Moi - Hole Erth

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 8.5K views

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Anything In Return

Playlist • Toro y Moi • 6.2K views

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Khruangbin

2.03M monthly audience

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Blood Orange

13M monthly audience

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra

336K monthly audience

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Skinshape

1.04M monthly audience

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BADBADNOTGOOD

3.56M monthly audience

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Jai Paul

8.74K subscribers

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Tame Impala

241M monthly audience

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Mk.gee

295K monthly audience

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Thundercat

10M monthly audience

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Flying Lotus

897K monthly audience