Toro Y Moi will be going out on his biggest tour yet this upcoming year, headlining shows at venues such as The Fonda Theatre in LA, 9:30 Club in DC, Metro in Chicago, and Webster Hall in NY. Toro Y Moi fans are able able to buy tickets for this tour through his site now, four days in advance of general public sale.
The product of a move from South Carolina to Berkeley, CA and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, Toro Y Moi’s third full-length, Anything in Return, puts Chaz Bundick right in the middle of the producer/songwriter dichotomy that his first two albums established. There’s a pervasive sense of peace with his tendency to dabble in both sides of the modern music-making spectrum, and he sounds comfortable engaging in intuitive pop production and putting forth the impression of unmediated id. The producer’s hand is prominent- not least in the sampled "yeah"s and "uh"s that give the album a hip-hop-indebted confidence- and many of the songs feature the 4/4 beats and deftly employed effects usually associated with house music. Tracks like "High Living" and "Day One" show a considerably Californian influence, their languid funk redolent of a West Coast temperament, and elsewhere- not least on lead single, "So Many Details"- the record plays with darker atmospheres than we’re used to hearing from Toro Y Moi. Sounding quite assured in what some may call this songwriter’s return to producer-hood, Anything in Return is Bundick uninhibited by issues of genre, an album that feels like the artist’s essence.
TORO Y MOI
1-30 – Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
1-31 – El Paso, TX – Tricky Falls *
2-01 – Dallas, TX – Trees
2-02 – Austin, TX – Emo’s East
2-04 – Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s
2-05 – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
2-06 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (Heaven Stage)
2-08 – Carrboro, NC – Cats Cradle
2-09 – Richmond, VA – The National
2-10 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
2-11 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
2-13 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
2-15 – Boston, MA – Paradise
2-16 – Montreal, QC – Club Soda
2-17 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace *
2-19 – Chicago, IL – Metro
2-20 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line Music Cafe
2-21 – Lawrence, KS – The Granada Theatre
2-23 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
2-24 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
2-26 – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret
2-27 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
2-28 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
3-03 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre
* w/ Wild Belle
