So Many Details

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"So Many Details"
So Many Details - Toro y Moi.jpg
Single by Toro y Moi
from the album Anything in Return
B-side
  • "So Many Details (Remix)"
ReleasedOctober 15, 2012
Recorded2012
Genre
Length4:45
Label Carpark
Songwriter(s) Chaz Bundick
Producer(s) Chaz Bundick
Toro y Moi singles chronology
"I Will Talk to You"
(2011)		"So Many Details"
(2012)		"Say That"
(2013)

"So Many Details" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Toro y Moi. The song was released on October 15, 2012 through Carpark Records, as the lead single from his third studio album Anything in Return (2013). Toro y Moi is the recording project of musician Chaz Bundick, who wrote, produced, engineered, mixed, and performed all instrumentation on the track.

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Background

Bundick, in an announcement accompanying the song's release, called it an attempt "to make sincere pop music that’s not all processed and bubblegum." [1]

The song was first shared on SoundCloud on October 15, 2012; a special 7-inch single containing a remix of the song with Odd Future's Hodgy Beats saw release on Black Friday Record Store Day on November 23 of that year. [1] This combination was made available for digital download on December 3, 2012. [2] The song's music video, shot by directing duo HARRYS and photographed in the Hamptons, was uploaded on December 12, 2012. [3] The video stars Bundick and actress Sarah Stephens; writer Jeremy D. Larson described its concept: "[The clip features] Bundick staring despondently into the camera recalling the all the many details of an equally despondent lady." [4]

Reception

Ian Cohen at Pitchfork felt the song "marks another leap in [Toro y Moi's] songwriting and production by way of working in the art of seduction." [5] Sam Weiss at Complex considered it more upbeat than his previous work, calling it "distinctly Bundick, spacey production and all." [6] Jamie Milton, writing for DIY called its varying instrumentation "distracting in its sheer novelty, but after a few listens everything slots into place, every previously conflicting element feels like it belongs." [7] Stereogum's Corban Goble found it "one of the weirdest things [Bundick's] ever done." [8] Drew Millard at Vice described the tune as "a slow burn, fusing spacey Quiet Storm with the electronics of his first album, Causers of This . Think Ennio Morricone, crossed with Drake's "Marvins Room", at a syrup-sippingly slow pace." [9]

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Anything in Return. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 Hilleary, Mike (October 15, 2012). "Listen: Toro y Moi - "So Many Details" Off Upcoming Album Anything in Return". Under the Radar . Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ "So Many Details - Single - Single by Toro y Moi". Apple Music . Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ Huynh, Davis (December 12, 2012). "Toro Y Moi - So Many Details". Hypebeast.com. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  4. ↑ Larson, Jeremy D. (December 12, 2012). "Video: Toro Y Moi – "So Many Details"". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  5. ↑ Cohen, Ian (October 15, 2012). ""So Many Details" by Toro y Moi". Pitchfork . Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  6. ↑ Weiss, Sam (October 15, 2012). "Listen: Toro y Moi "So Many Details"". Complex . Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  7. ↑ Milton, Jamie (October 16, 2012). "TORO Y MOI - SO MANY DETAILS". DIY . Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  8. ↑ Goble, Corban (October 15, 2012). "Toro Y Moi – "So Many Details"". Stereogum . Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  9. ↑ Millard, Drew (October 15, 2012). "Toro Y Moi - "So Many Details"". Vice . Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  10. ↑ Anything in Return (CD liner notes). Toro y Moi. Carpark Records. 2013. CAK77.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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