13 September 2025
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Debut album of chillwave from one-man band Chaz Bundick
6.9
Causers Of This infects your mind with pure psychedelia, splicing such conflicting sounds as soul, freak folk, hip-hop and electronica, and the result hits you like Animal Collective on a comedown Read Review
Gladly amasses 70s space-funk, 80s chart-soul and 90s piano house. Of course that means it’s excellent Read Review
The sound of the summer is here already Read Review
He’s got an ear for appealing sounds, a competent set of pipes (even if he still hasn’t located his ideal range), and can write a mean melody Read Review
Bundick embraces a cleaner and mellower sound that's more indebted to hip-hop. He wears his inspirations proudly, and throughout there's a clear nod to producers like J Dilla and Flying Lotus Read Review
This is the kind of dreamy, undemanding album that you can spin on repeat on a lazy afternoon and let it lull you to sleep Read Review
Toro Y Moi puts intelligence and inventiveness into a youthful music genre dumbing itself down at an unduly early stage Read Review
It squirms and shimmers for an all-too-brief 33 minutes, sounding like somebody melted a cassette with a mix of early-90s R&B jams on one side and Person Pitchon the other Read Review
This South Carolina daydreamer exhibits a talent for crafting songs which push all the tender buttons while displaying enough sonic invention to place them firmly in the present Read Review
Bundick's clearly a tech geek to rival that young fellow who does all the hard work for The XX Read Review
Pronounced experimentalism is one of the more appealing properties of Bundick’s record, while those most tolerant of tepid, early ‘80s tones will find certain segments easier to swallow than the rest of us Read Review
It’s easy to commend this album on the sole basis that despite coating his tracks with an incomprehensible amount of tripped-out trickery, Toro Y Moi still branches out into less protected songwriting Read Review
Causers of This is pretty much the musical embodiment of mellow, but after eleven tracks this gets a bit samey Read Review
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Toro Y Moi: Causers Of This
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