- indie rock
- 37 min
- 10 tracks
- Carpark Records
What For? is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Toro y Moi, released on April 7, 2015, by Carpark Records. The album includes 10 tracks at a run time of 36:38. Prior to the album release, Toro y Moi revealed three teaser tracks. These tracks include: "Empty Nesters", "Buffalo", and "Run Baby Run". This release follows his 2013 studio album Anything in Return.
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Spare, character-led, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Consequence of SoundC
- Pitchfork6.6/10
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Tracks
- 1What You Want3:26
- 2Buffalo3:17
- 3The Flight3:59
- 4Empty Nesters3:43
- 5Ratcliff2:41
- 6Lilly4:27
- 7Spell It Out2:54
- 8Half Dome3:15
- 9Run Baby Run2:45
- 10Yeah Right6:11
10 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Toro y Moi
- Label
- Carpark Records
- Released
- April 6, 2015
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XE
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