Toro y Moi’s 2024 album Hole Erth was one of the more interesting albums in a long career of genre shifts and explorations. On it, Chaz Bundick looks back at his younger years lyrically while unveiling a mix of cloud rap, nocturnal trap, chillwave, shoegaze, and emo pop that encased his alternately rapped and sung vocals like tendrils of a dream. While he was working on that, he also envisioned a companion album inspired by Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in NYC that stripped back the arrangements to something less dreamy and more grounded, while giving new context to the words. In 2025, Unerthed (Hole Erth Unplugged) was released and it definitely provided a different sonic experience. It’s still kind of dreamy – loads of swooping pedal steel guitar…

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