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Faded or dreamy retro pop sound
- Common features include a faded or dreamy retro pop sound, escapist lyrics (frequent topics include the beach or summer), psychedelic or lo-fi aesthetics, mellow vocals, slow-to-moderate tempos, effects processing (especially reverb), and vintage synthesizers.
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Common features include a faded or dreamy retro pop sound, escapist lyrics (frequent topics include the beach or summer), psychedelic or lo-fi aesthetics, mellow vocals, slow-to-moderate tempos, effects processing (especially reverb), and vintage synthesizers. Chillwave was one of the first music genres to develop primarily through the Internet.
- 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
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
THE Essential Chillwave Sound Every Producer Should Know. This is probably the most used sound in all of Chillwave/Chillsynth music. Here's how you create it... Link to my preset...
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Jun 25, 2019 · Most chillwave was created as beatmaking or sampling and it sounds really good when you’re high, so its eventual leaching into hip-hop was inevitable — the brief “cloud rap” surge of 2011 ...
Oct 14, 2019 · Washed Out, Neon Indian, Toro y Moi, and what happened after the genre’s bedroom pop sounds hit the indie mainstream.
Dec 23, 2020 · Voyage’s warm and fuzzy signature sound is a perfect representation of what Chillwave evokes in people’s minds when mentioned. Songs like “Paraside”, “Allude” or “Beyond” are all considered classics that capture the dreamy atmosphere of the genre to perfection, but 2018’s “Dynamic” is by far the greatest of Voyage’s efforts.
