Yesterday at Lollapalooza, Toro Y Moi played a few songs. One of them, “Rose Quartz,” is a sinuous, slow-building synth-disco jam that continues the smoothed-out career arc that Chaz Bundick has been on since Underneath The Pine. Check out a nice professional video of the band playing the song below.
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For Saturday’s recap and photos, click here.
For Friday’s recap and photos, click here.
Sunday’s recap below…
In contrast to Saturday’s torrential downpours, emergency weather evacuation, and general air of hecticness, Sunday floated by, with cooler temperatures and even occasional breeziness, to ease out of three long festival days.
1:30 p.m. @ The Sony Stage: Poliça Swaying in the sun to Poliça’s dreamy experimental pop was a nice start to the day, as they played through a set mostly made of songs from their debut album, Give You The Ghost: “Dark Star,” “Happy Be Fine,” “Lay Your Cards Out,” “Wandering Star.” The Minneapolis group — a mix of R&B, psychedelica, and electronic pop — has been around for less than a year. But front-woman Channy Leaneagh is an interesting, confident performer — singing and twitching in a way that’s subdued but bold. Her lyrics are mostly inaudible, layered and delayed, pushed forward by two drummers. Even so, on the last song the band performed Sunday afternoon, “Leading To Death,” Leaneagh’s head snaps and punches carried her experimental pop jam like it was a protest song. If it’s hard to tell what she’s talking about, you know she means it.
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Riding a wave of superchill gossamer reverb, Toronto’s DIANA (which includes members of Destroyer’s band) has finished recording an album, but in advance of it’s release they’ve released a dreamy single that recalls aspects of Nite Jewel and Toro Y Moi while doing it’s own new romantic thing.
“Born Again” skitters with lo-fi drama while simultaneously delivering a crisp neon 80s vibe that would fit perfectly in a slow motion montage of lovers driving down the 10W at sunset in an imaginary John Hughes/Michael Mann movie.
Until the proper release of the full length, I dare you not to listen to this soundcloud of their first proper single, “Born Again,” on repeat.
– Mario Cotto
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Tyler, The Creator shows a lot of love for Toro Y Moi on Twitter, so you had to figure a collaboration between the two was only a matter of time. Apparently, the track, “Hey You,” got out there before they were finished, but OF is rolling with it. Via their Tumblr:
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