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Watch 'Hollywood'
NEW ALBUM ‘UNERTHED: HOLE ERTH UNPLUGGED’ OUT 9/19 + NEW SONG “CD-R (UNERTHED)” OUT NOW
new acoustic album, unerthed: hole erth unplugged, out 9/19 🏜️the first track “cd-r (unerthed)” is out now. listen to the new track + pre-order the album here
ON SALE NOW: 2 NIGHTS AT BIMBO’S 365 CLUB IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA + SHOW IN BOLINAS, CA
we’re playing 2 special nights of shows at bimbo’s 365 club in san francisco with special guest sasami 9/12-9/13 🌁🌉 tickets on sale now here
local presale is available in person for smiley's saloon on 9/14 in bolinas, ca with special guest sasami. info on tickets here.
TORO Y MOI X KRINK
A lot of my artwork starts with a sketch. I’ll either start really small with a pencil and paper or really large with a paint pen. Something about the weight of the lines makes everything feel iconic. I’m very excited to announce my collaboration with NYC’s own KRINK, available online now in the store. To celebrate this release, I’ll be doing live KRINK drawings on sunday at sf art book fair with company studio.
ON SALE NOW: ‘2 DAYS OF MUSIC’ IS BACK AT BIG SUR, CA
19 SEP: TORO Y MOI, CHRIS COHEN, CHEFLEE
20 SEP: TORO Y MOI, LIONMILK COLE PULICE ASTRONAUTS, ETC.
Call Fernwood Resort for Room, Cabin & Tent Cabin weekend passes at 831.667.2422
More info here
NEW COVER OF BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE’S “STARS AND SONS” OUT NOW
I remember first hearing about BBS when I was a sophomore in high school. ‘You Forgot It In People’ especially caught my ear, i thought the production was so ahead of its time— the intros and outros, the interstitials… so much informed how I like to make records. I’m so happy to be included in this project. Listen here
‘WHAT FOR?’ 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Documentary from the era filmed by Harry Israelson up now on youtube. Instrumental versions available now on cassette and all streaming platforms.
Watch the documentary and order the cassette here.
SOUL TRASH OFFICIALLY RELEASES ON VINYL
Originally released as a digital only record, it is now officially available on colored vinyl along with the soul trash hoodie here.
ON SALE NOW: Toro y Moi with very special guest Panda Bear North America Tour
excited to hit the road with very special guest panda bear in north america in 2025🫂☯️ we’ll be joined by nourished by time and kassie krut in select cities.
tickets are on sale now at toroymoi.com/#live
🎨: brodie kaman
* with nourished by time
^ with kassie krut
ALBUM #8 aka ‘HOLE ERTH’ is now out
new album out now along with new music videos "Madonna" (feat. Don Toliver) and "Babydaddy" directed by kristie muller.
thanks to everyone who's been with toro through all the many stages and eras. i hope this chapter ignites a fire within, something true and unique to you. see you soon.
<3 chaz
HOLE ERTH RELEASE PARTY IN OAKLAND, CA
bay area - come hang and celebrate the release of my new album ‘Hole Erth’ at contact records in temescal alley in oakland tomorrow sat at 5pm. I’ll be spinning and snail bar will be slinging wine and beer. free to attend!
Hole Erth Beach Cleanup + Listening Parties in San Francisco and Newscatle, NSW
i’m partnering with Usal Project for a beach cleanup on sunday, september 1 at ocean beach, followed by a ‘Hole Erth’ listening party at Tunnel Records i’ll spin songs from the new album and there will be Andytown Coffee Roasters coffee, merch giveaways, and more 🏖♻️🎶
tickets for the event are now sold out. all proceeds go to sogorea te' land trust. see you at ocean beach!
across the pond in australia, our friends at take 3 for the sea are putting together a beach cleanup at bar beach in newcastle, nsw on saturday, august 31. the clean up will also be followed by an album listening party hosted at abicus records. this event is open to the public, first come first entry (i can't be there, but hope that the heads in the area can make it and hear the album early!).
new album ‘Hole Erth’ is out on 9/6 via Dead Oceans 🕳🌍
New tracks - Heaven and CDR
Listen to Hollywood ft. Ben Gibbard and CD-R.
New Date - The Greek Theatre Berkeley
tickets for the greek theatre with Aminé on 10/25 are on sale now, can’t wait to dance with you 🎶!
Heaven
Watch the video for 'Heaven' (feat. Kevin Abstract & Lev), directed by India Sleem.
HOLE ERTH, the new album feat. Don Toliver, Kevin Abstract & more out 09.06.24
TRACKLIST:
Tuesday
Watch the video for 'Tuesday', directed by India Sleem.
JUST ANNOUNCED: New shows in LA & NY
Exclusive Hole Erth merch
Brand new Hole Erth hoodies, t-shirts and hats are available to pre-order now.
Talking Heads cover
"Genius of Love" ft. Brijean
CD-R (Unerthed)
Hole Erth (Full Album Visualizer)
Madonna
Babydaddy
Hollywood
CD-R
Heaven
Tuesday
Sandhills
Live from Big Sur
Millennium
Postman
MAHAL Listening Party
Freelance
Ordinary Pleasure
Girl Like You
Rose Quartz
With Unerthed (Hole Erth Unplugged), Chaz Bear surfaces the songcraft of 2024's Hole Erth, his eighth full-length studio record as Toro y Moi. Rearranged for guitar, piano, drums, and strings, the collection adds a curious postscript to Hole Erth's unexpected, inspired, madcap pivot into rap-rock, hyperpop, and Y2K emo. Daring in its own right, Unerthed reveals a deft songwriter unguarded, inhabiting lyrics and instrumentation with uncomplicated poise and clever turns of phrase and melody. It's a return to basics for the shapeshifting Bay Area artist, a chance to excavate and shed new light on the material. These elemental revelations have been at the core of Bear's project all along, from his earliest CD-Rs to the many mutations of psych-funk, synth-pop, deep house, and beyond that have kept the independent music world transfixed and guessing for nearly two decades. But Unerthed sounds it out more clearly, underscoring that there has only ever been one genre here: Toro y Moi.
Before a haze-crazed blogosphere crowned "Blessa" at the top of the 2010s, Bear experimented in a more traditional mode of homespun folk akin to that of early Sufjan Stevens or Iron & Wine. He returned to it with his 2023 EP, Sandhills, and here, he taps further into that come-up story and style. The treatment is fitting for "CD-R" , itself a nod to the DIY grind of his formative era, when he would burn handmade mixes and pack the trunk with merch for poorly booked tours. In place of the original's trap beats and autotuned sad boi bars are soft strums and flourishes of lap steel, with Bear's voice left wistful and clean, howling in the key of Alex G. "Everyday's a different interstate, tell me what's today? It's transcendental," the lines land differently in the open air.
"HOV" transforms from a pop-punk anthem to an Americana spiritual. Where Bear delivered angst with a playful wink on the LP version, now, above arpeggiated keys and the string-backed highway sprawl, he's "biodegradable / an energy angel" in a more earnest, raw kind of way. Both takes are true, because they're his; yet, the unplugged presentation of "HOV" and the work across the album lend extra gravity to the wordplay. "All the constellations still look the same / Poor navigation, who am I to blame?" he sings on the nostalgic "Hollywood", first realized with Ben Gibbard on Hole Erth. The Unerthed version finds Bear alone and just as lost under the stars in Tinseltown. What felt intentionally emo in the original registers here as more classically bleak, deeply rooted within a lineage of songwriting melancholy that predates its millennial touchstones (from Leonard Cohen to Elliott Smith).
The poignant reframings continue throughout; "Madonna" , pepped up in a western swing, becomes the love song it had flirted with, "Heaven" doubles down on the suburban daydream, "Starlink" reappears far less flexed, the tender, jetlagged ballad it's always been. An album, in part, about burnout and reclaiming oneself, Hole Erth came together unusually quickly for Bear, recorded in the span of a few months. Unerthed makes the case that the instinctual songbook captures more emotion and personality than initially meets the eye. Revisited, stripped back, and unpacked, what's left is the sheer strength of these songs. A worthy stop along the winding catalog of a musical chameleon, one of our contemporary greats.
Chaz Bear adds:
"The idea to begin this project came while listening to Nirvana’s ‘MTV unplugged’ record. I love how the rearrangement brought out so many intricacies of their songwriting and gave context to the original recordings and the decisions made. During the recording of ‘Hole Erth’, the sonic palette was more aggressive and angsty than what most of my listeners were used to hearing from me, but I felt these songs were strong without any production. I wanted to be able to play them on guitar live. One day, after posting an acoustic version of ‘CD-R’, I saw a huge amount of positive responses. I guess it was a modern-day version of crowdsource testing a song—which led to me completing this vision. It reminded me of how folks were asking for a full-length record of my ‘Sandhills EP’, and I figured I’d this is the perfect opportunity to present something completely different conceptually. Americana has always been a major theme in my music. I asked myself what could be more edgy than Rap-Rock turned Alt-Country? Hole Erth and Unerthed was meant to be a dual album from the beginning, the vision is complete. Enjoy...
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