Toro y Moi is stripping it back. With Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged (out Sept 19 via Dead Oceans), Chaz Bear reimagines his genre-defying 2024 album Hole Erth with guitars, piano, drums, and strings, revealing the tender songwriting at its core. Inspired by Nirvana’s iconic MTV Unplugged session, Bear frames this project as the long-awaited companion piece to Hole Erth: “What could be more edgy than Rap-Rock turned Alt-Country?”
The lead single, “CD-R (unerthed),” trades trap beats and auto-tune for gentle strums and lap steel, evoking the DIY spirit of Bear’s early days. The result is wistful, bare, and quietly powerful — proof that beneath the genre-shifting experiments, Toro y Moi has always been about songwriting first.
More than just an acoustic spin-off, Unerthed is a bold excavation of the artist’s catalog, one that underscores Toro y Moi’s singular voice across two decades of shapeshifting.
👉 Pre-order the album and listen to “CD-R (unerthed)”