CAK073 Toro y Moi - June 2009 Tickley Feather one of cultural self-awareness and

one of cultural self-awareness and satiric critiques of society’s pressures and the often ridiculous demands – and prices we pay – to exist

the tracklist a reminder that the holidays are complex and tragicomic

Smith’s goal being to filter a certain set of varied influences through just a couple of instruments

while inverting the trope of the “sad dude singer accompanied by a homogenous girl-sound

with the airiness of Malay's vocals set in sharp contrast with the claustrophobic doom of Emmanuel's warped percussion

CAK073 Toro y Moi - June 2009 Tickley Feather one of cultural self-awareness andToro Y Mois first commercial release, the Blessa single, introduced the world to Chaz Bundicks brand of introspective, atmospheric pop music, and while the A side wound up laying the framework for his debut, Causers Of This, backing track, 109, hinted at a side of his music having more in common with the oddball pop of Ariel Pink than any of Causers reference points. As it turns out, around the same time he was experimenting with music software and