How brilliantly stupid do you have to be to pick a stage name like Toro Y Moi? That’s what Chazwick Bundick chose for his. Toro Y Moi is a combination between Spanish (toro=bull, y=and) and French (moi=me). It’s like War of the Spanish Succession all over (Spain and France on one side)! Bad!
The album from this guy is called Causers of This. An album nice indeed and a rather interesting combination of folk and jazz, even R&B, that do deliver a suave and delirious atmosphere. Yeah, it all seems delirious, dreamy and the songs flow one after/into another, but it’s either too picky, a snobbish play in the studio, either a mediocre, even primitive craftwork. The entire album’s flavor smells of some artists, actually good ones, but I dare not make comparisons.
Songs like Imprint After, Lissoms (with a most complex instrumental), Low Shoulder and even Freak Love surface a little bit more from the album’s pool. Those pieces actually hold most of the interesting combinations mentioned above. The boy is talented, but his musical future remains by a long shot to be determined as being promising or just stuck.
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