Toro Y Moi - Freelance

Music 5 years ago

Toro Y Moi - Freelance

FOR ONE TO understand the song "Freelance," a curious and thrilling disco proposition from Chaz Bear—the soul, sweat, and engine behind the recording outfit Toro y Moi —it's best to think of it as a stack.

The song is a sum assembled of intricate strata, a swirl of licorice keys and AutoTune with a heart of bell-bottomed funk. It's a colorful, polylingual thing meant to feel at once retro and refreshingly avant-garde.

Applying a similar logic, the song is also elemental to a larger stack (in this case, Bear's soon-to-be-released album): It's not dissimilar to, say, a block of software or a Lego piece, something within an infrastructure tasked with an objective.

"Freelance," then, performs doubly, concurrently. It is a compound made of several parts and also one part of a greater whole.