Toro Y Moi's - June 2009 - 5x7" box-set is out April 24th through Carpark Records. Currently the only location to pre-order the box-set is through the website Insound. The price is a fairly reasonable $24.98 + shipping. This release was originally on a tour CD-R compilation of the same name.
Tracklisting: (According to original comp.)
01 Ektelon
02 Dead Pontoon
03 Besta Round
04 109
05 Take The L to Eave (Commercial)
06 Girl Problems
07 Flections
08 New Loved Ones
09 Freak Love
10 Animilia
11 Talamak
12 Blessa
13 Drive South
14 Sad Sams
15 Eden
16 Causers of This
(Original Cover)
Insound description:
"Originally part of the tour-only CD-R of the same name, June 2009 feels like a peek inside the mind of an artist not knowing where to turn once stripped of the structure of school life. He struggles with good friends moving away (“Sad Sams”), the pressing feeling that a move to New York is a necessary career move (“Take The L To Leave”), and the fear that simple pleasures have become a thing of the past (“Ektelon”). But more than nostalgic yearnings for the recent past, the songs are like journal entries—as commemorative as they are therapeutic. Elsewhere, tracks like “Girl Problems” and “Dead Pontoon” show how his first album might have sounded if “109” had been that first single’s A-side, with reverb-soaked, angular guitar riffs serving as focal points of the power-pop periphery. Also included is an early version of Causers standout “Talamak,” one of his first cuts to make the blog rounds and an interesting insight into the process of reformatting his work to fit with the album. Closer “New Loved Ones” sees Bundick in a rare, intimate environment, accompanied only by an acoustic guitar and in the throes of love lost. With songs varied in style but bound together by their personal subject matter, June 2009 is a portrait of a young man unknowingly on the cusp of a fruitful career."
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