The master of chillwave has been building up this (hedonistic) mood (along with Washed Out and Neon Indian) since 2010 with a lot of class. Laced with smooth funk sounds from the 80s (think Michael Mann’s first films), synth pop sounds filled with effects, layers of untampered with vocals, simple (but not simplistic) melodic lines and an unrelenting and rather dreamy rhythmic, Toro Y Moi produces what he has always believed in: oneirism mixed with soul…
In 2015, after the release of What For?, he left the comfort of his cozy Oakland nest for a solitary parenthesis, further north, in Portland. There, in Oregon, he wrote Boo Boo which was released in the summer of 2017. The purpose of this move to Portland was to eradicate any superficiality and better concentrate on what was important. Upon returning to California from his Bay Area, Toro Y Moi conceived Outer Peace as a record of all his past experiences and way of remembering his values, which are funk, disco (Ordinary Pleasure) and house (Freelance and Laws of the Universe). Obsessed with refining the melodic framework of his (relatively short) songs which play on the neurons as you listen, Toro Y Moi has totally mastered his art, which is more soulful than ever.
Toro y Moi - "Freelance" (Official Music Video)
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