toro y moi 'saturday love' & cut copy remix

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Odds are, Toro Y Moi's Underneath The Pine will end up on plenty of year-end lists. But Chaz Bundick isn't done..  in fact he's got an EP coming out in September on Carpark.

Today "Saturday Love" was released as a teaser for Freaking Out. It continues the late 70's flavor of Underneath The Pine with a bit more of Bundick's previous DIY aesthetic:




If you dig that, download it for an email address below. And while you're here, go ahead and check out the remix of Cut Copy's "Blink And You'll Miss A Revolution" from Toro Y Moi that will appear in a remix bundle and on a 12" later this month:

(via gvsb)

toro y moi chills underneath the pine

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24-year-old Chazwick Bundick wasn't blessed with a marquee-ready name, so he chose to perform under the stage name Toro y Moi. Not even two years removed from graduating from the University of South Carolina — Bundick, Gamecocks, coincidence? — he's about to release his second Toro y Moi album, Underneath The Pine.

Lumped in with chillwave, Bundick is a friend and contemporary of one of the movement's founding fathers, Ernest Greene, aka Washed Out. However, Toro y Moi's take on fuzzy synth nostalgia is considerably more upbeat.

Take "Still Sound", which owes a debt to 70's funk as much as 80's synthpop:




On a song like "How I Know", you can even detect harmonies and throwback rhythms that echo the psychedelic folk of Ariel Pink:




On "Go With You", Bundick chills out the tempo and turns up the reverb:




Occasionally, it does get to be a little much. The cheeky keyboard lead in "New Beat" pushes an otherwise fine track completely over the top:




Taken as a whole, Underneath The Pine is an appealing diversion. It's the kind of sugary pop you can enjoy out in the open, instead of shamefully behind closed doors.