Mistletone

ALWAYS LIVE and Mistletone proudly present Toro y Moi‘s first headline Australian shows in over five years.

TORO Y MOI HEADLINE DATES:

BRISBANE: TUE NOV 15 @ PRINCESS THEATRE
with Touch Sensitive. tickets here

SYDNEY: MON NOV 21 @ THE METRO
with Touch Sensitive. tickets here

MELBOURNE: WED NOV 23 @ NORTHCOTE THEATRE * SOLD OUT
with Touch Sensitive.
This event is part of ALWAYS LIVE, a new state-wide celebration of contemporary live music supported by the Victorian Government through Visit Victoria.

Toro y Moi; aka South Carolina-reared, Bay Area-based Chaz Bear, emerged as a figurehead of the ‘chill wave’ sub-genre, the sparkling fumes of which still heavily influence musicians all over today. Over the subsequent decade, Chaz’s music and graphic design has far surpassed that particular designation.

Across nine albums with Mistletone (and US label Carpark), Chaz explored psych-rock, deep house, UK-style hip-hop, R&B and well beyond, without losing that rather iconic, bright and shimmering Toro y Moi fingerprint. As a graphic designer, Bear has collaborated with brands like Nike, Dublab and Vans. As a songwriter and producer, he’s collaborated with Tyler, The Creator,Flume, HAIM, Tegan and Sara, and Caroline Polachek; and stretched out with side projects such as house moniker Les Sins and ambient project Plum.

Mahal, Toro’s first album with Dead Oceans, dropped in 2022 — and it absolutely slaps. An instant classic, Mahal takes its name from the Tagalog word for ‘love’ and honours Chaz’s maternal heritage (his mother is Filipina, his father Black), with album artwork and videos celebrating the jeepney; the brightly-coloured public transport minibus of the Philippines.

Mahal follows Toro’s highly celebrated 2019 album Outer Peace, which Pitchfork described as “one of his best albums in years” along with his Grammy-nominated 2020 collaboration with Flume, “The Difference,” which featured in a global campaign for Apple’s Airpods and landed at #3 in triple j’s Hottest 100. 

artwork by Carl Breitkreuz