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Toro y Moi is a synthpop artist from Columbia, South Carolina, USA formed in 2001. 25 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Synthpop · Columbia, South Carolina, USA · Best synthpop albums
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Anything in Return
2013
Hole Erth
2024
Causers of This
2010
Underneath the Pine
2011
What For? (Instrumentals)
2025
Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged
2025
MAHAL (Live from Big Sur)
2023
Anything In Return (Instrumentals)
2023
MAHAL
2022
Underneath the Pine (Instrumentals)
2021
Causers of This (Instrumentals)
2020
Outer Peace
2019
What For?
2015
June 2009
2012
My Touch
2008
Chaz Bundick started making bedroom recordings under the name Toro y Moi in his native Columbia, South Carolina in 2001. Drawing from a wide-ranging array of influences (Animal Collective, Daft Punk, and J Dilla among them), Bundick had a couple albums' worth of material ready for release eight years later. He was slated to release two full-length albums on Carpark Records in 2010: one, a dreamy, indie electronic affair (something like a cross between Panda Bear and Beach House); the other, a jumpy, garage-influenced indie pop effort that was influenced by bands like Saturday Looks Good to Me and Guided by Voices. In the meantime, Carpark released Toro y Moi's debut 7" split single, Blessa/109, featuring one track from each of the forthcoming discs, in 2009. Only one album was actually issued in 2010, however, the dreamier Causers of This, which placed Toro y Moi right in the middle of the "chillwave" wave. By the time of his next album, early 2011's Underneath the Pine, Bundick had incorporated space age bachelor pad and disco influences into his sound, distancing himself from his chill contemporaries. He followed it up later in the year with an EP (Freaking Out) that was even mor…
