Store Categories TORO Y MOI Boo Boo / 2x LP NEW VINYL / Carpark 2017

After releasing the poppiest, most guitar-oriented Toro y Moi album yet with 2013's What For?, the always musically restless Chaz Bundick changed directions again. After a side trip to record some prog jazz with the Mattson 2 on early 2017's Star Stuff album, some soul-searching, and a name change to Chaz Bear, Toro y Moi took a big detour from power pop back to something more rooted in the chillwave sound Bear helped make a thing. Released in 2017, Boo Boo is a schizophrenic album that swings between almost formless R&B meanderings and peppy electro-funk, with Bear using space and distance on the former to create chilly atmospheres. Tracks like "Embarcadero" and "Pavement" are static and frozen, sounding like Frank Ocean tracks that were stored in a freezer. Bear liberally borrows from subaquatic balladeers like Ocean and James Blake, then ups (downs?) the stakes by removing the emotions. It leaves the ballads on Boo Boo empty at the center, ponderous and not much fun to listen to. More successful are the songs that have some swagger and fun in the grooves, like the bobbing "Girl Like You" or the bubbling "Inside My Head," which has some seriously tough bass playing and one of Bear's best vocals. These tracks are indebted to Prince and Daft Punk, with all the lightness and joy that implies.

A1 Mirage
A2 No Show
A3 Mona Lisa
B1 Pavement
B2 Don't Try
B3 Windows
C1 Embarcadero
C2 Girl Like You
C3 You and I
D1 Labyrinth
D2 Inside My Head
D3 W.I.W.W.T.W.
D4 (Be)

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