The new album from Jonti—a part-time touring guitarist for the Avalanches—is aesthetically omnivorous, encompassing dream pop, electronica, hip-hop, and R&B. His busy perfectionism makes his every song an epic of pop flamboyance, lavish and wildly ornate. Jonti’s third album, Tokorats, has been almost six years in the making—recorded, then discarded, then recorded from scratch again. Jonti claims to have produced hundreds of variations of each of the album’s 15 tracks. And what is a tokorat? “A multicolored weirdo mutant composed of all the elements of your story and all the complexities of your character,” Jonti explains. Well, Tokorats is all that, and then some.
A1 | Lotus Street |
A2 | Alien |
A3 | Sleeping And Falling |
A4 | Island Rose |
B1 | Misto On The Moon |
B2 | Tokorats |
B3 | Isle Of The Dead |
B4 | Zuki |
C1 | Cities |
C2 | Staring Window |
C3 | Animah |
D1 | Love Prayer |
D2 | Maria Mapulane Thibiri |
D3 | Papaya Brothers |
D4 | Meese Man |