Toro y Moi, alias South Carolina’s Chaz Bundick, has built his reputation through producing punchy and beatheavy music, suitably fronted by his own voice. Chillwave is a label often thrown at him, but his music is often more complex than much of what falls under that banner.
The music found on his third studio album, Anything in Return, is not grandly different to what preceded it; but there is a harder edge here which is more constant than on previous releases. Beats are larger, the melodies more prominent, and as a whole it serves as both a continuation and extension of the upbeat sounds heard on 2011’s Freaking Out EP.