"Ordinary Pleasure" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter

Toro y Moi Chaz Bear (born Chazwick Bradley Bundick; November 7, 1986), known professionally as Toro y Moi, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and graphic designer. He is often recognized as a spearhead of the chillwave genre in the 2010s, ...

. The song was released on December 4, 2018, by Carpark Records, as the second single from his sixth studio album '' Outer Peace'' (2019). Toro y Moi is the recording project of musician Chaz Bundick, who wrote, produced, engineered, mixed, and performed all instrumentation on the track.

Background

The song's

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, directed by Mancy Gant, depicts Bundick and his band performing and hosting a

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with artists from his Company Record Label studio, based in

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Reception

Ben Kaye at

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considered it Bundick's "most playful" single in some time, writing, "It's backloaded with grooving bongo rhythms and squinching synths giving the chorus and electronic slickness." Gabriela Tully Claymore, writing for

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, perceived a "quiet desperation to the lyrics" of the tune, "made quieter by the fact that the instrumentation is so languid and easy-going."

Charts

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References

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