Carpark

On Anything In Return, his third album under the moniker Toro Y Moi, sonic wunderkind Chaz Bundick injects an old-school hip-hop flavor into his signature chillwave sound. Inspired by a move to Berkeley, Calif., and the adjustment period of a new city and new coast, bold beats are juxtaposed with trilling keys, falsetto-laden vocals, and ambient sampling to make this audio savant’s most accessible and infectious effort to date. The album commences with the melancholy swagger of “Harm In Change,” a percussion-heavy track featuring ‘90s-styled, sampled female vocals that could easily be mistaken for a Club MTV-ready B-side, while the first single “So Many Details” fuses darker synth textures and sultry lyrics that show a more reflective side of this chilled-out pop purveyor.