Wed, 2010-12-01 09:30 | by Carles
Toro Y Moi has some new album coming out called "Underneath the Pine" and every1 is all excited abt it, being all like "What's it gonna sound like?" "Is it gonna get a 10.0?" "Can Chaz recapture the magic?"
Anyways, Pitchfork did some interview with him, and he talked abt shit abt his new album.
First he is like 'I finished this album like 10 months ago.'
Pitchfork: So you're getting back from tour, you just put out single from your dancier alter ego Les Sins, and you've got this new album coming out early next year. It seems like you've been pretty busy.
Chaz Bundick: Yeah, man. [Underneath the Pine] was pretty much sort of written in between tours. I was already working on it when Causers came out. Everything was done pretty much in February and June [of 2010].
Still get kinda hornie looking at the album art.
Then he said that his new album is gonna be 'mad authentic' bc he isn't doing 'sample-based' stuff or something.
Pitchfork: Would you say the new record's a shift in direction, then, or is it going to be a continuation of the sound on Causers?
CB: The way I saw it, for Causers, the things I was interested in sampling-- I decided to make that kind of music. So the songs on it are disco and punk and spacey, the kind of stuff that I got interested in when I was sampling for Causers. I thought it'd be fun to just make that kind of stuff. There's no samples [on Underneath the Pine]. I think people that appreciate Causers can see where I'm coming from with this album. There are similar things going on with delays and arpeggios, and the overall funkiness and soulfulness of it.
Then he said 'what his influences were' so now every music journalist gets 2 reference them while they are reviewing his album:
Pitchfork: Any specific musical influences you were drawing from while making Underneath the Pine?
CB: A lot of horror movie soundtracks and a lot of space disco. There's one group called Mandre, they're really cool, I got into those guys. And then a lot of Piero Umiliani and François de Roubaix.
Pitchfork: Horror movie soundtracks and space disco can sometimes represent opposite ends of the emotional spectrum, light and dark moods.
Might start listening to more horrorwave soundtracks and disco space disco core just to rlly get in touch with 'the next modern aesthetic.'
The interviewer then asks 'the million dollar indie question' [via "What do yall think abt chillwave, yall?"]
Pitchfork: When people attach genre names on to this style you and others work in-- for example, "chillwave"-- do you react against those tags, or do you feel they help form some sort of a community?
CB: I tend to avoid those kinds of things. I don't put categories on music, myself. So either people go with it or they don't, and sometimes the names sound a little silly. But I don't mind genre names. "Chillwave" is probably the last thing I would think of [laughs], but I don't mind it. I just usually tell people I like to call it pop, or experimental pop, or something. Even on the new album, on "Elise", I drew some harmonies and melodies from a lot of Young Money stuff. It's fun to have that gray area and try to remain timeless, in a way. Like, take influences from Young Money and put it in a disco song or something.
Do u think Neon Indian, Toro Y Moi, and Washed Out should start a blog called OurThoughtsOnChillwave.org so they don't have to answer that question in every interview?
Will all of the 2k9 chillwave artists have to talk abt chillwave for their next album cycle?
Is "Underneath the Pine" going 2 be the album of 2k11?
R u glad that 2k10 only has 1 month left?
What do yall think of chillwave--is it a 'bullshit genre name' or 'has it been great 4 the indie community'?
Toro Y Moi
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