Toro Y Moi to bring chill wave to Bishop

Based on increasing ticket sales since his first appearance in Bloomington, Chazwick Bundick, better known by his stage name Toro Y Moi, has been growing as a musician and is performing at 8 p.m. today at the Bishop.

Toro Y Moi released his first full-length album, titled “Causers of This,” in January
2010.

From there, the musician continued to grow after releasing his sophomore album, “Underneath the Pine,” in early 2011. The album won Pitchfork’s “Best New Music” award.

Tickets are currently on sale at Landlocked Music, the Bishop, and have recently sold out at the Buskirk-Chumley box office.

Bishop owner Stephens Westrich said the performer is reaching a younger audience that seems to be “very in tune with certain trends” and is “very cutting edge.”
Elizabeth Mortenson, graduate assistant at the Buskirk-Chumley box office, said, “This is a much different type of show, but the tickets have sold really well, despite having competition from other events.”

Jason Nicki, owner of Landlocked Music records store, had similar thoughts about the size of the upcoming show.

“We’ve sold a lot of (tickets), for sure,” Nicki said. “I think it’s one of the bigger shows this month. We’ve sold more for this show than the other shows in the past week.”
This will be the third time Toro Y Moi has performed in Bloomington and his second performance at the Bishop.

Toro Y Moi seems to be increasing ticket sales each time he performs a show in Bloomington, said Caitlyn Kuhs, assistant manager of the box office at the Buskirk.
“I’m not sure if they did tickets with us the first time, and I was here the second time he came here,” Kuhs said. “At that point he hadn’t sold out. So he must be doing a lot better now.”