Toro Y Moi Reimagines His Latest Album With ‘Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged’

Leave it to Toro Y Moi to put a unique spin on the modern deluxe album trend. Last year, he dropped Hole Erth, a nostalgic review of his suburban teen years with an odd combo of indie and rap sensibilities. This September, he’s reissuing the project as Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged. As its MTV-inspired title suggests, the remix album will feature all-new arrangements of Hole Erth songs like “CD-R” and “Daria” — a la the Y2K favorite, Unplugged, which is fitting for an album so entrenched in that strange and magical time period. In the press release, Toro explains why he went this direction,