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Chillwave (originally considered synonymous with glo-fi and hypnagogic pop) is a music microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s. It is characterized by evoking the popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s while engaging with notions of memory and nostalgia.
- Washed Out – Feel It All Around, 2009
- Neon Indian – Should Have Taken Acid with You, 2009
- The Beach Boys – All I Wanna Do, 1970
Arguably the definitive chillwave track. Released on the Life Of Leisure EP, this dreamy chugger found a broader audience as the opening theme for Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s hit TV show Portlandia, a comedy series which, fittingly for chillwave and its Hipster Runoff origins, spoofs millennial hipster life. Retro synthpop credentials are ...
None more lo-fi, Alan Palomo’s kitschy psychedelic pop chops are at the forefront on this simple love letter-cum-apology to an ex. In less than two and a half minutes, all the key features of chillwave are ticked off: simple, catchy pop melodies, stoned psychedelia, swirling synths and dreamy lyrics: “Should have taken acid with you/ Touch the star...
Long considered an influence on shoegaze and dream-pop of the early ’90s, this deep cut from the Beach Boys’ 1970 album Sunflower was cited as an inspiration by Toro y Moi. Described by Brian Wilson as “a boring song”, the haunting tune has an endearingly psychedelic arrangement including 12-string guitar, Moog modularsynth and the rare Rocky Mount...
- Future Music
Indie acts like Tame Impala and Blood Orange took serious cues from the genre - Tame Impala’s Lonerism showed hints of it, but was mostly inspired by psychedelic rock. However, Currents, Tame Impala’s latest record, is absolutely drenched in reverb.
Dec 18, 2015 · Chillwave—the dead-not-dead electronic pop genre that launched a thousand dorm-room producers—could be pointed to where this listener-generational phenomenon begun.
Aug 23, 2019 · At their core, chillwave acts made pop music, so they were applying those sounds more to dance music, shoegaze tropes, the skeletons of quiet storm, or to brittle funk rhythms.
- Colin Joyce
Exactly 10 years ago “chillwave” was established as a genre, coined July 27, 2009 on the infamous blog Hipster Runoff in a quintessentially snarky yet borderline insightful post by Carles.
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Oct 14, 2019 · The perpetually joking-not-joking meta-blogger Carles effectively coined the term “chillwave” in a July 2009 post on his site, Hipster Runoff, partially poking fun at genre-coining music...
