Toro y Moi – Sandhills EP (Vinyl)

Toro y Mois Sandhills is both a tender love letter to Chaz Bears hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, and a poignant, bittersweet acceptance that one can never really go back home.

Recalling Sufjans Seven Swans or Karen Os 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.

Tracklist:
01. Back Then
02. Sidelines
03. Sandhills
04. The View
05. Said Goodbye to Rock n Roll