Chaz Bear, who goes by the moniker Toro y Moi has just released a new 80s, bucket hat style music video for his track “No Show” through music blog The Fader. Featuring crunchy, pulsing chords and old school special effects, Toro y Moi delivers colorful representation on being someone’s no show. Following his video releases for his songs “Girl Like You” and “You and I”, “No Show” borrows the stylistic elements of the aforementioned videos and compiles them into one 1980s paid programming adventure.
“No Show” is the third music video featuring a track from Toro y Moi’s Boo Boo, his fifth and most recent full-length album. Boo Boo has been debated by many as Chaz Bear’s beginning with his comfortability as a vocalist so as to add to his already incredible electronically sonic palette. Also unlike his past works, Boo Boo seems to be a more revealing record in which the audience can get an inkling of his life. Throughout Boo Boo, Toro y Moi explores a vast book of music, alluding to the greats like Pink Floyd, Dilla, and Prince.
The music video for “No Show” lends a chillwave vibe to the ears and eyes while still remaining unique to the sound of Toro y Moi. Unlike the rest of the Bear’s Boo Boo, “No Show” offers the listener a more relaxed take, letting us sink into the sounds as his soft vocals encompass the spaces inbetween.
In a conversation with The Fader, Toro y Moi states that the video “is about how patterns can change” and after watching the video one can see how true that is. The beginning of the video open with Bear singing to the audience through some neon-type-microphone. As the video progresses alongside the music, one can begin to distinguish these patterns that Bear talks about. Scenes change back and forth between new footage of Bear as well as old footage, giving us the feel and idea behind Toro y Moi’s changing of patterns. As the chimes begin to die out we immediately hear a change to the hidden Boo Boo track (Be) featuring Madeline Kenney. This musical change accompanies a scene change in what appears to be Chaz Bear receiving a haircut, changing his patterns. After the haircut, the pattern of the video changes, again, to a scene of a man covered head to toe in clothing walking off into the dry, desert distance. Kenney’s vocals harmonize with one another for one final crunchy chord and the video cuts to black.
Boo Boo, which has received praise from the likes of The New Yorker, Stereogum, Vice’s Noisey, Rolling Stone Magazine, and more, is out now through Carpark Records.
Photo Credits: Mauricio Alvarado
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