Sandhills, by Toro y Moi

Sandhills

by Toro y Moi

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TheBloodofChrist Feel that about only wanting to play music at home while sucking at football. Country was the perfect genre for the theme of this song. Favorite track: Sidelines.

Jesse I can't get enough of his album. I've been listening to Chaz's work since '09 and this brings me right back to high school. But his sound is now cleaner, with better vocals, a little twang, and Chaz's classic ear for instrumentation and production. Favorite track: The View.

ethan woods a real callback to the super early days of Toro, and it's amazing. When I was in highschool I remember scouring the web for his old demos, and this feels like a collection of those that he fully conceptualized and fleshed out. Love the etching on side B of the vinyl. Favorite track: Sidelines.

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Toro y Moi - Sandhills EP on Black Engraved Vinyl. LPs include custom etching of album lyrics. B-side features field recordings.

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1.	Back Then 02:49	buy track
2.	Sidelines 03:25	buy track
3.	Sandhills 03:15	buy track
4.	The View 02:35	buy track
5.	Said Goodbye to Rock n Roll 01:34	buy track

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Toro y Moi’s ‘Sandhills’ is both a tender love letter to Chaz Bear’s hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, and a poignant, bittersweet acceptance that one can never really go back home. Recalling Sufjan’s ‘Seven Swans’ or Karen O’s soundtrack work for ‘Where The Wild Things Are,’ these loping folk-pop songs are themselves a sort of Saturn return, reminiscent of Bear's first handmade CD-Rs as Toro y Moi. Bear gave them out to friends in the earliest days of the moniker, the releases stuffed in the Case Logic visor of their cars, and each listen brings a little more of that detail to life: the mall after which 'Sandhills' is named; the teenaged friends spending aimless hours there, full of big ennui and bigger dreams; the late-capitalist decline and empty big box stores of Sandhills today.

Chaz Bear, Toro y Moi, is now a globally beloved indie-pop icon. But 'Sandhills', with its banjo and lap steel flourishes and its wide-eyes wonder, concedes that you never quite totally rid yourself of those adolescent blues. You might just, if you're lucky, develop better mechanisms (or delusions!) with which to handle them. "Sidelines" tells the tale of aesthete putting himself through the high school football gauntlet. Even the closing novelty track “Said Goodbye To Rock n Roll” has all the makings of a Chris Stapleton hit if you just squint a little. Clear eyes, full hearts, sweet jams, can’t lose. Lyrically deft and deceptively heartbreaking, ‘Sandhills’ may be a brief pit stop between grand statements from Bear, but it’s brimming with rust, guts, big moods and love.

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released August 25, 2023

Recorded by - Chaz Bear
Engineered by - Chaz Bear
Mixed by - Chaz Bear
Mastered by - Joe Lambert
Produced by - Chaz Bear

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Toro y Moi Oakland, California

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Aug 9

Remlinger Farms

Carnation, WA
Aug 9

Remlinger Farms

Carnation, WA
Oct 18

Mana Wynwood Convention Center

Miami, FL

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