Well, Toro y Moi continues to explore new avenues of music with every release since his magnum opus of a chillwave album in 2010. Mahal is a full-blown psychedelic rock, funk, and pop album with some very Ariel Pink-esk hypnagogic pop elements thrown in. I think a casual fan of old Tame Impala, Flaming Lips, Of Montreal, and MGMT will really enjoy this. But overall, the album really adds nothing to psychedelic music, plus the overall vibe of the album never really feels right and is scattershot. Not exactly seeing the appeal here with this one. It?s interesting to see how he really tries to get his music out of the chillwave aesthetic, and yet ?Goes By So Far? feels exactly like a chillwave-esk track.
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