Just eight months after that original Hipster Runoff post, The New York Times’ ArtBeat blog ran a review of Austin, Texas’s South By Southwest festival, writing chillwave off as “annoyingly noncommittal music, backing droopy vocals with impersonal sounds – a hedged, hipster imitation of the pop not brash enough to make”. Within months, music blogs and websites were voicing predictably contrary opinions that chillwave was over and the style had reached saturation point. In a flurry of activity that seems remarkably organic considering the overtly artificial way the genre was defined and created by Carles, 2009 and early 2010 saw the release of definitive chillwave albums including Memory Tapes’ Seek Magic, Toro y Moi’s Causers Of This and Neon Indian’s Psychic Chasms.īy mid 2010, and following broader coverage from publications like Pitchfork and The Wall Street Journal, chillwave had become a genuine trend.įittingly, the chillwave trend declined almost as quickly as it had been dreamed up by Carles, driven in no small part by the very same online media that drove its initial success. ![]() Alternative options included Chill Bro Core, Kewl Boring Music, Music 2 smoke weed 2, Synth Computer Pop Atmospheric Wave, WaveWave, Pitchforkwavegaze, Forkshit and Zan圜ore and more.Ĭhillwave stuck as a term to describe this more indie-focused synthwave cousin, a retro sound with roots in similar ’80s electro-pop to synthwave, but with a more psychedelic aesthetic than the polished neon sheen of synthwave.ĭrawing on similarly retro ’80s synth influences, chillwave also took in the lo-fi indie pop of songwriters like Ariel Pink and James Ferraro, the smudged, blurred sonics of shoegaze and the abstract, nostalgic psychedelia of Animal Collective. ![]() ![]() As genre names go, chillwave is actually fairly tame compared to some of Carles’ other suggestions in a stream-of-consciousness list of borderline gibberish ideas.
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