Boo Boo (album)

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Boo Boo
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 7, 2017 (2017-07-07)
RecordedMarch 2016–March 2017
StudioPortland, Oregon
Genre
Length49:11
Label Carpark
Producer Chaz Bear
Toro y Moi chronology
Samantha
(2015)
Boo Boo
(2017)
Outer Peace
(2019)
Singles from Boo Boo
  1. "Girl Like You"
    Released: June 9, 2017
  2. "You and I"
    Released: June 29, 2017

Boo Boo is the fifth studio album by Toro y Moi, released on July 7, 2017 via Carpark. [1] "Girl Like You" was the first single from the album and was released on June 9, 2017. [2] Toro y Moi cites Travis Scott, Daft Punk, Kashif, Gigi Masin, Frank Ocean, and Oneohtrix Point Never as inspiration for the album. [1] [3] Toro y Moi said the album was written to help "cope with an identity crisis caused by his growing popularity". [1] [4]

Contents

Release

Toro y Moi released the album on July 7, 2017. One day before the release, Toro y Moi uploaded an album stream and short film to YouTube, which was directed and produced by Company Studio. [4] The short film is a predominantly single-take, rotating evening shot from within the camper shell of a truck, featuring Chaz Bear sightseeing at Treasure Island, San Francisco before driving the truck to Grizzly Peak, Berkeley Hills to view the evening twilight over the Bay Area. [4] The short is periodically overlaid with random scenes featuring Bear at a studio, [4] which location has been featured in prior music videos for "Girl Like You" and "You and I".

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.0/10 [5]
Metacritic 73/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Line of Best Fit 6.5/10 [8]
Pitchfork 6.9/10 [9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [6] Stereogum writer Tom Breihan named it "Album of the Week" and states Boo Boo "might just be the best Toro Y Moi album yet, partly because it sounds like all these past strains of his music whirled together and partly because it’s just a great album." [10] Ian Cohen of Pitchfork writes, "Toro Y Moi's Chaz Bear sounds increasingly comfortable as a lead vocalist and personality on his most personal album to date, as a still-funky but more ambient side of his writing emerges." [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Chaz Bear

No.TitleLength
1."Mirage"5:09
2."No Show"3:14
3."Mona Lisa"4:15
4."Pavement"2:22
5."Don't Try"4:25
6."Windows"4:05
7."Embarcadero"2:46
8."Girl Like You"3:43
9."You and I"3:51
10."Labyrinth"4:01
11."Inside My Head"4:11
12."W.I.W.W.T.W." (includes bonus track "Be", featuring Madeline Kenney)7:08
Total length:49:11

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes. [11]

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [12] 136
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [13] 5
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [14] 18
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [15] 29

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