{"id":5029,"date":"2026-03-01T13:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:01:30","slug":"toro-y-moi-unerthed-hole-erth-unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/en\/music\/toro-y-moi-unerthed-hole-erth-unplugged\/","title":{"rendered":"TORO Y MOI \u2013 UNERTHED: HOLE ERTH UNPLUGGED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artist: <strong>Toro Y Moi<\/strong><br>Album: <strong>Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged<\/strong><br>Label: <strong>Dead Oceans<\/strong><br>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/toroymoi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/toroymoi.com\/<\/a><br>Style: <strong>Electro, Folk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American Chazwick Bradley Bundick graduated in graphic design from the University of South Carolina. With three fellow students, he founded his first indie rock band before joining forces with the artist Washed Out. Like Washed Out, during his solo career under the name Toro Y Moi, he went through several phases before finally settling on a quiet, sensual pop sound with a strong electronic influence, where synthesizers and samples reign supreme. He released his first album, <em>Causers Of This<\/em>, in 2010 and has since released a dozen or so albums, dabbling in different styles according to his desires and inspirations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accustomed to musical contradictions, Toro Y Moi offers us a reinterpretation of <em>Hole Erth<\/em>, his previous album with a strong electro influence, in which he used computers and filters almost to excess. With <em>Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged<\/em>, the artificial flourishes have been abandoned, and the central elements return to the acoustic realm with guitar and vocals. It is even surprising to discover these compositions in a version stripped of all artifice, showing how some of them can be content with simplicity to ultimately highlight their strength. For this album, we will therefore look for comparisons in folk accompanied by a light psychedelic veneer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With these new arrangements, the songs take on an unexpected character, with the strings of the folk or slide guitar vibrating gently. Carried along on a down tempo rhythm, they follow the lead vocals and backing vocals. Even though they don&#8217;t hesitate to show that they are made of metal, they avoid going too high and overloading the tweeters. A violin or piano accompanies them on certain tracks, but it is always the mid-range frequencies (and therefore the vocals) that are seductive with their presence within a soundstage of unfailing stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accustomed to regularly changing styles, Toro Y Mio delivers Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged, a tender folk version of the previous album, which was much more electronic-oriented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":5030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[138,194],"class_list":["post-5029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-electro","tag-folk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions\/5031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}