Toro y Moi – Anything In Return 2LP Fashion

The product of a move from South Carolina to Berkeley, CA and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, Toro y Moi s third full-length, Anything in Return, puts Chaz Bundick right in the middle of the producer songwriter dichotomy that his first two albums established. The producer s hand is prominent–not least in the sampled yeah s and uh s that give the album a hip-hop-indebted confidence–and many of the songs feature the 4 4 beats and deftly employed effects usually associated with house music. Tracks like High Living and Day One show a considerably Californian influence, their languid funk redolent of a West Coast temperament, and elsewhere–not least on lead single, So Many Details –the record plays with darker atmospheres than we re used to hearing from Toro y Moi. Sounding quite assured in what some may call this songwriter s return to producerhood, Anything in Return is Bundick uninhibited by issues of genre, an album that feels like the artist s essence.