Midorexia Club

“I want a brand-new house/Something I cannot buy/Something I can’t afford,” goes the refrain of “New House,” one of the album’s sneaky highlights; it’s the recession-pop anthem we’ve been waiting for since the financial collapse of 2008. But perhaps it’s fitting that it falls to Bear to deliver it: Chillwave’s adolescent regression was always a response to the recession, even if it wasn’t recognized as such; chillwave embodied the “dream of the ’90s” insofar as the 1990s was a decade in which young people’s opportunities withered and died on the vine. A decade down the line, the unemployment rate has fallen below 4 percent but young people’s fundamental prospects haven’t gotten much better. “Uber messed up everything,” Bear grumbles on “Monte Carlo.” In the gig economy, it’s no wonder that the chorus to a song called “Freelance” would mimic someone gagging. Toro y Moi’s brilliance is to make the mere act of survival sound like so much fun. “ (PITCHFORK) 


"Lo primero que hago es meditar. Salgo a la naturaleza, al bosque, al agua, no importa dónde estés, puede ser un río en la ciudad o un lago en medio de la nada. La naturaleza tiene muchas conexiones y puede conectarnos de una manera universal, entre nosotros. Creo que podemos incorporar elementos de la naturaleza en la música, siento que ahí hay una posibilidad." ( Chaz Bear)

TORO Y MOI - "Outer Peace" (Spotify)