Toro y Moi - Sandhills (Extended Play)Toro y Moi's 'Sandhills' is both a tender love letter to Chaz Bear's hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, and a poignant, bittersweet acceptance that one can never really go back home. Recalling Sufjan's 'Seven Swans' or Karen O's soundtrack work for 'Where The Wild Things Are,' these loping folk pop songs are themselves a sort of Saturn return, reminiscent of Bear's first handmade CD Rs as Toro y Moi. Bear gave them out to friends in the earliest

Avant-pop and electronic superstar Charli xcx has become an iconic figure in the arts

For Emma isn't a wholly ascetic project

Parker recorded the album on his own

Scott Weiner

moving past the multi tracked pastiche of earlier efforts into a unique and vibrant band voice

The Alchemy

Max Martin and Shellback and Tobias Jesso Jr

Aquatic sensibility

a deserted beach expressing a world outside reality

a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time-a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor

Hiatt teamed up with multi-grammy award winning artist and producer

The album was written by Rodrigo and her producer Dan Nigro