Toro y Moi hires Kevin Abstract and Lev for new song “Heaven”

Toro y Moi has teamed up with Kevin Abstract and Lev for a new song, “Heaven,” which interpolates Broken Social Scene’s “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl.” It is the second preview of Toro y Moi’s upcoming album Loch Erthfollowing the lead single “Tuesday.” Watch the video directed by India Sleem below.

Toro y Moi said the following about the new single:

As a musician, you occasionally hear stories about these songs that the songwriter said “just came out of nowhere.” Or they were written in a matter of minutes or hours—there’s just a casual magic about them. “Heaven” was just that. It was my first day of the “Hole Erth” sessions at Different Fur in San Francisco. I asked Grace Coleman, the engineer, to open a random session from a stack of demos from my studio. Within an hour of the session starting, I was finishing a second verse and it occurred to me that I might have a song worth finishing. It was a moment of literally letting go of those songs and putting them in someone else’s hands (and computer), fully taking on the role of songwriter, not thinking about production or mix and just listening to my thoughts. Ultimately, I wrote about moments of processing, realizing that the musician’s journey is a constant exercise. Focusing on one aspect is all that can happen. How do you make a decision when the options presented are all poetically polarizing?

Loch Erth will be released on September 6th via Dead Oceans.