Search results
People also ask
What is chillwave music?
What song is the defining chillwave song?
What is chillwave & how does it work?
Is chillwave a tame genre?
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.
Jun 3, 2021 · The term chillwave was coined by a writer known simply as ‘Carles’, aka Texas native Carlos Perez, founder of music blog Hipster Runoff. Launched in 2007, it was part of a broader blog scene at the time, when new music could be broken by bloggers and the influential aggregator site Hype Machine.
- Future Music
Aug 21, 2019 · Chillwave: a momentary microgenre that ushered in the age of nostalgia. In a summer riven by financial meltdown, a niche trend for lo-fi retro pop couldn’t have seemed more...
Aug 23, 2019 · Chillwave Was the First Great Genre of the Internet Era. A guide to the best songs from the late-aughts movement of hazy pop artists like Toro y Moi, Washed Out, and more. Chillwave, at...
- Colin Joyce
Jul 14, 2011 · Unbelievably, goofily, Carles was right: Chillwave is “the first successful genre launch in 10-20 years.”. To mark the auspicious development, Vulture traveled to the far indie-rock corners of ...
- Contributor
Jun 28, 2021 · Chillwave can also be called glo-fi, bedroom pop, or hypnagogic pop, but I’m not really a fan of those labels. It’s influenced by and contains many elements of shoegaze, dream pop,...
Greene’s most popular song (and what could be called the defining chillwave song), “Feel It All Around,” is best known as the theme song to Portlandia. The song uses a slowed-down sample of the 1983 track “I Want You” by Italian disco warbler Gary Low.
