Hole Erth, Chaz Bearseighth full-length studio record as Toro y Moi, is the genre shapeshifters most unexpected and bold move to date, with Bear diving headlong into rap-rock, Soundcloud rap and Y2K emo.

The album blitzes anthemic pop-punk next to autotuned, melancholic rap two genres that inform one another now more than ever before and packs in the most features ever on a Toro y Moi album.

A sense of nostalgia sneaks its way into almost every Toro y Moi release, but angst is an emotion that Bear has never intentionally explored the way he does here. Tracks like Tuesday” channel a specific, yet forever-relatable sense of adolescent unease. A distorted guitar riff leads into a repeating chorus that conjures misunderstood teenagers singing aloud, maybe too loud, while riding bikes through American suburbs. This foreboding can also be heard on HOV