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UncutJan 17, 2013It can at times be truly excellent 21st-century pop, but too often the songwriting just doesn't match up and many tracks are just multitracked signifiers with no connecting tissue. [Feb 2013, p.81]
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Q MagazineJan 24, 2013For all its chiseled flirtation, what Anything In Return fails to offer is any real emotion. [Feb 2013, p.112]
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Jan 22, 2013Ultimately Anything In Return suggests a tendency to follow the musical trends du jour rather than defining a true Toro Y Moi sound.
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Jan 17, 2013Bundick can't seem to escape the downward pull toward conformity, fizzy production taking a back seat to bland pronouncements about love and yes, another damn hype man. [Jan-Feb 2013, p.90]
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Jan 22, 2013It's not just a preference for textures over melodies that makes Anything In Return fall short of its genre-bending aspirations, however. Pop music is more than just dance beats and glammy electronics; it's an attitude, and Bundick might just not have it.
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Jan 22, 2013Return is neither a step up or down from 2010's wave-warping Causers of This or 2011's time-warping Underneath the Pine, yet it's not more of the same.
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Jan 24, 2013While Anything in Return might be the most consistent of any of his records up to this point, it lacks the punch to break through.
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Jan 17, 2013The album wears a multitude of influences on its sleeve, containing elements of hip-hop, house, disco and funk, but ultimately there is a distinct lack of variation amongst the thirteen tracks.
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Jan 31, 2013It sounds promising at first, but then it slumps into a bed of mediocrity that Toro y Moi has already proved he is more than capable of avoiding.
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Jan 24, 2013His latest album is full of sexy slow jams, hip-hop samples and an overall tone better suited to a club than a lazy house party.
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Jan 22, 2013It has a youthful glow, but over 13 tracks Anything lacks substance.
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Feb 8, 2013Anything In Return feels again like the work of an artist still exploring his sound and yet to pin it down to something concrete.
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Oct 4, 2013Bundick doesn't have a great voice. A one-man vehicle such as Toro y Moi won't fix that issue any time soon, so it might be time for some extra help.
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Jan 22, 2013As Toro Y Moi is mirroring sounds from genres past, Anything in Return sounds all too familiar.
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Feb 4, 2013Bundick never quite detaches from the sound here, and if he languishes there any longer he’s liable to go down with the ship.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 36
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Mixed: 7 out of 36
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Negative: 1 out of 36
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Jan 25, 2013
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Mar 21, 2013This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Jan 24, 2013