Fans of Toro Y Moi will be delighted to know that singer-songwriter/avant-garde producer Chaz Bundick is as weird as ever on his new release, What For?, which you can listen to one week before its release in the player above.
What For? is a space disco, an R&B funk den, a piano lounge bar at the airport and a sunset harbour cruise with the cast of Broad City. In the press release, Bundick himself cites a host of casual and diverse influences, including Big Star, Talking Heads, Brazilian psychedelic soul legend Tim Maia and French '70s jazz-funk group Cortex.
"I’ve done electronic R&B and more traditional recorded-type R&B stuff," Bundick said. "I just wanted to see what else was out there. It’s all coming from the same mindset and point of creativity. It’s just me trying to take what I already have, and then taking it further."
Bundick rises to his own challenge. What For? is a gloriously bizarre, fun freakout of an album, particularly the joyously unhinged "Empty Nesters" and the trippy closing jam, "Yeah Right," which spins out in a shimmering slow burn.
by Andrea Warner via Electronic RSS
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