“It’s easy to see why his debut album as Toro Y Moi, 2010’s critically lauded Causers of This, would be held up as a defining example of the form: Like the best of that micro-genre, Causers makes great use of pillowy-soft synths, dreamy vocal blurs, shushing filter sweeps, and somnambulantly slowed samples of what sounds like lite ’80s pop. But while Bundick was working with the same gentle brushes and hazy shades as contemporaries like Washed Out or Memory Tapes, he was also painting a much deeper and more nuanced picture. Read Eric Grandy’s full feature on Toro Y Moi.Photos by Charitie Myers.Published on March 28, 2011