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Causers Of This

Toro Y Moi

Causers Of This

Debut album of chillwave from one-man band Chaz Bundick

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Carpark
UK Release date
22/02/2010
  1. 8.0 |   NME

    Causers Of This infects your mind with pure psychedelia, splicing such conflicting sounds as soul, freak folk, hip-hop and electronica, and the result hits you like Animal Collective on a comedown
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  2. 8.0 |   The List

    Gladly amasses 70s space-funk, 80s chart-soul and 90s piano house. Of course that means it’s excellent
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  3. 8.0 |   The Times

    The sound of the summer is here already
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  4. 7.9 |   Beats Per Minute

    He’s got an ear for appealing sounds, a competent set of pipes (even if he still hasn’t located his ideal range), and can write a mean melody
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  5. 7.6 |   Pitchfork

    Bundick embraces a cleaner and mellower sound that's more indebted to hip-hop. He wears his inspirations proudly, and throughout there's a clear nod to producers like J Dilla and Flying Lotus
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  6. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    This is the kind of dreamy, undemanding album that you can spin on repeat on a lazy afternoon and let it lull you to sleep
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  7. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Toro Y Moi puts intelligence and inventiveness into a youthful music genre dumbing itself down at an unduly early stage
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  8. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    It squirms and shimmers for an all-too-brief 33 minutes, sounding like somebody melted a cassette with a mix of early-90s R&B jams on one side and Person Pitchon the other
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  9. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    This South Carolina daydreamer exhibits a talent for crafting songs which push all the tender buttons while displaying enough sonic invention to place them firmly in the present
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  10. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Bundick's clearly a tech geek to rival that young fellow who does all the hard work for The XX
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  11. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Pronounced experimentalism is one of the more appealing properties of Bundick’s record, while those most tolerant of tepid, early ‘80s tones will find certain segments easier to swallow than the rest of us
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  12. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    It’s easy to commend this album on the sole basis that despite coating his tracks with an incomprehensible amount of tripped-out trickery, Toro Y Moi still branches out into less protected songwriting
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  13. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Causers of This is pretty much the musical embodiment of mellow, but after eleven tracks this gets a bit samey
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  14. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  15. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  16. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only


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