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Mahal

Toro Y Moi

Mahal

Seventh release from the South Carolina-born onetime chillwave pioneer Chaz Bundick

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Dead Oceans
UK Release date
29/04/2022
US Release date
29/04/2022
  1. 8.0 |   NME

    Five years in the making, the artist's seventh studio album is a divine demonstration of genre-blending, psychedelic electronic music
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  2. 8.0 |   Clash

    Overall, the album is a tour-de-force bound to leave the listener nostalgic for warm, sunny times with an inherently groove-focused, genre-bending sound
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    This is Bear and band at their most exciting, most inventive. and most fun
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  4. 8.0 |   DIY

    Where ‘Mahal’ lives and breathes is in the minutiae
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  5. 7.5 |   Pitchfork

    Chaz Bear’s latest is a loose and lively psych-funk melange—the sound of a one-man band learning how to jam
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  6. 7.0 |   Gigwise

    Finding joy in adversity
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  7. 7.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Toro y Moi’s Mahal feels a lot like the aural equivalent of lazing around on a Sunday afternoon
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  8. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    For his seventh record as Toro y Moi, Chaz Bear has curated a sonic escape route fit for a time of exceptional dread
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  9. 6.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    More often than not, the album falls back on an extremely radio-friendly sound
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  10. 6.0 |   Dork

    ‘Mahal’ is much like any other Toro Y Moi album. Strong, funky production, here elevated by a larger live accompaniment, let down by songwriting that feels a bit basic
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  11. 6.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    Very radio-friendly and mainstream-sounding, kind of the exact opposite of much of Toro’s past work
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