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LP - Toro Y Moi - Sandhills
LP - Toro Y Moi - Sandhills
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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.
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.
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.
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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