So Many Details

"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.

"So Many Details"
Single by Toro y Moi
from the album Anything in Return
B-side
  • "So Many Details (Remix)"
ReleasedOctober 15, 2012
Recorded2012
Genre
Length4:45
LabelCarpark
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)

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 descrribed 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]

  • Chaz Bundick – design, engineering, layout, mixing, performer, production
  • Patrick Brown – engineering, mixing
  • Jorge Hernandez – second engineering
  • Joe Lambert – mastering

References
  1. 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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