Despite the torrents of rain pouring down on Brighton on Thursday night, Tori Y Moi kept the windswept audience enthralled with a tight set of sunkissed quality at Coalition.

As large waves battered the seafront just yards away, Chazwick Bundick (the man behind Toro Y Moi, which translates roughly as “bull and me”) and his cohorts duly hit the ground running with a perfect 45-minute mix of chillwave pop, funk and experimental tones that hung together brilliantly.

Bundick cheekily asked, “Is the weather always like this?” before launching into tracks that had echoes of 1960s sunshine pop infused with 1970s psychedelica, by way of ridiculously funky basslines from an exceptional bassist.

If you were to describe his overall sound, it would be something akin to alpine funk, with sultry basslines leading the way through airy keys and cutting guitars. Yet to pin down Toro Y Moi to a genre would be to do him a disservice.

Low Shoulder was exceptional, while How I Know sounded like The Beach Boys after a few pina coladas, with a truly gorgeous chorus. The songs were played with precision and warmth, and fading them into one another left the audience guessing.

Bundick’s success seems to be that he can experiment with genuinely interesting, alternative sounds while simultaneously rooting them within a crisp, danceable framework, which was on show with the swaying bodies and nodding heads throughout.

Bundick thanked the crowd for coming out on a “cold/wet/windy/work/school night”, covering all the bases neatly; in a sense, so too did his set, with a little of everything to send the crowd back out into the gales with swooning smiles.