Last July, a blogger named Carles, writing for the site Hipster Runoff, clustered together a handful of up-and-coming bands with a similar sound and recording approach and, by most accounts, birthed a new genre: chillwave. It didnt take long for other music sites to start throwing around the term. About six months removed from the summer of chillwave, Toro Y Mois debut LP is being released in the dead of winter, read a recent Pitchfork review of an album by multi-instrumentalist Chaz Bundick, who performs under the name Toro Y Moi.

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