New York-based collective toso toso announces their self-titled debut, out November 7th, 2025 via Leaving Records. The album delivers an exploratory vision of avant-pop, where free improvisation meets intricate form. Tender and furious, the band navigates extremes of emotion and dynamics—playful and raw—crafting vivid contrasts and surprising turns that emerge seemingly out of nowhere. It’s a bold sketch of sound, where texture becomes narrative and experimentation feels instinctive.
Formed in 2020, toso toso is made up of producer, drummer, and sound designer Kabir Adhiya-Kumar; synth and keyboardist Rahul Carlberg; producer and guitarist Celia Hill; and interdisciplinary artist Isabel Crespo Pardo, the group’s vocalist and wordsmith. Each member brings a background in improvisation, a foundation that shapes their collaborative compositional process. Songs often begin as a single idea from one member, which is then looped, sculpted, and stretched collectively into unexpected forms. These fragments are transformed and sometimes mangled beyond recognition as they pass through the group’s shared sensibility, yielding music that is at once fractured and fluid.
| A1 | cLAcLAcLA |
| A2 | Lluvia de Meteoritos |
| A3 | Corre Que Corre |
| A4 | Arrastro Los Pies |
| B1 | Pareciera |
| B2 | En la Lengua |
| B3 | Te Siento Cerca |
