TORO Y MOI - SANDHILLS (12" EP) RSD CLEARANCE Despite the potential confusion-and perhaps

Despite the potential confusion-and perhaps in hope of capitalizing on it-Lou Ragland began filling his mug with a host of recordings that would make up his Hot Chocolate's eponymous debut

going triple platinum with "December

and mindful of the arid beauty of his images

the nearly eight-minute album closer “Smoke Detector” was recorded during soundcheck

especially around themes of queerness and climate change inspired by the red skies and wildfires subsuming Australia at the time

TORO Y MOI - SANDHILLS (12" EP) RSD CLEARANCE Despite the potential confusion-and perhapsBLACK VINYL 12" EP. "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