Sensitive, smart, young folk love Toro Y Moi, and it’s easy to hear why. The 23-year-old producer’s hazily dazed, euphoric pop bubbles and floats somewhere between chillwave and shoegaze. With the new album, Underneath the Pine, Toro Y Moi adds R&B tropes that lend a lubricious sheen to his earnestly sweet tunes. Aided by three musicians on this tour, TYM should provoke more dancing and romancing than you’ll witness at a month’s worth of typical indie-rock shows. (Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave, www.thecrocodile.com, 8 pm, $10, 21+)

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...