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Riff: Toro Y Moi – “Empty Nesters”

Jan 28, 2015

Let’s try to make another year for the teens/My mischief braids cut them for me/Smothered and covered by my high school dreams/Call mom and daddy cause the nest is empty/So are you

from Empty Nesters lyrics by Toro Y Moi

Chaz moves further from chillwave into straight-ahead indie-jangle. His voice sounds like the Foxygen dude, too – is he branching out, or copping others? Either way, this ‘off-to-college’ jam manages to drop “smothered and covered” for the first time since Bloodhound Gang; [LISTEN].

Riff by Karl Ernest

Karl is a Seattle-based musician and writer at SONGLYRICS; a veteran of both east and west-coast scenes, he has performed with the likes of The Ying Yang Twins, David Arquette, Wynton Marsalis, among others. But he's no stranger to seedy dives or house shows, either.

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