Born Chazwick Bradley Bear in Berkeley, California in 1986 (raised in South Carolina), Toro y Moi is the chillwave pioneer whose Causers of This (2010), Underneath the Pine, Anything in Return, and Boo Boo albums helped invent and popularize the chillwave genre — a hazy, synth-laden indie-electronic aesthetic that has influenced everyone from Frank Ocean to Childish Gambino. He joins Don on Love Sick's chillwave-leaning closer 'Cinderella' (2023) — a record that pulls Don into the most explicit indie-electronic territory of his career, and one of the album's most aesthetically adventurous deep cuts. Bear's hazy, melodic production aesthetic creates an unexpectedly beautiful frame for Don's narcotic-soul croon, producing one of Love Sick's most quietly distinctive moments. Toro y Moi's broader catalog and his role as one of the architects of the chillwave-into-indie-R&B pipeline make the 'Cinderella' pairing one of the more critically respected indie crossovers in Don's catalog — a record that signals Don's interest in operating across genre boundaries that few rap-orbit artists ever cross.
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