In mid-2009, Toro y Moi was signed to Carpark Records, on which he released his first full-length album Causers of This in January 2010. His second album, Underneath the Pine, was released on February 22, 2011. He was chosen by Caribou to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England. On September 13, Toro y Moi released an EP titled Freaking Out, featuring a cover of "Saturday Love" by Cherrelle and Alexander O'Neal. Toro y Moi put out a collection of experimental "stream of consciousness" recordings under his side project Sides of Chaz. In an interview with website At the Sinema, he stated that he had moved beyond the chillwave genre: "All that stuff is really good music, like Ernest Green (Washed Out) and Neon Indian. I'm a big fan of all of that, but I think chillwave was just a small little period where we all were, coincidentally.'' In January 2013, Toro y Moi released his third studio album, Anything in Return, which he described as having "sort of a '90s dance mix sound." According to him, the album "was definitely influenced by lots of different types of house, from deep house to two-step. The chords 'Harm in Change' and 'Say That' use—that's just something I've been a fan of for a while. I really wanted to mess around with those kinds of elements and revisit what I did on Causers of This, but make those elements a little bit better and more apparent."The album was called "highly indebted to the late sacrosanct hip-hop producer J Dilla" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian In promotion of Anything in Return, Toro y Moi has embarked on a tour across North America and Europe, which started on May 27, 2013 in George, Washington, and will end on November 10 in Vancouver, British Columbia.