chillwave

His songs belong to a genre that has been dubbed "chillwave" - electronic music influenced by 1980s pop.

NPR Topics: News 2011

The second effort from Chaz Bundick expands on the dreamy bedroom haze of his debut - roll your eyes and call it "chillwave" - ditching laptop sounds for live instrumenta-tion.

Album review: Toro y Moi, "Underneath the Pine" 2011

His songs belong to a genre that's been dubbed "chillwave" - electronic music influenced by 1980s pop.

NPR Topics: News 2011

His songs belong to a genre that's been dubbed "chillwave" - electronic music influenced by 1980s pop.

NPR Topics: News 2011

A few years ago, at the dawn of the electronic pop subgenre known as "chillwave" - think warm, bleary, heavily filtered washes of sound, of the variety most commonly created on laptops - the music spawned excitement and skepticism in equal measure.

NPR Topics: News 2011

A few years ago, at the dawn of the electronic pop subgenre known as "chillwave" - think warm, bleary, heavily filtered washes of sound, of the variety most commonly created on laptops - the music spawned excitement and skepticism in equal measure.

NPR Topics: News 2011

SMALL BLACK, WASHED OUT Be prepared to hear the word chillwave tossed around a lot in the coming months, in reference to a loose coalition of projects (some bands, lots of solo performers) that meld mid-90s tape-saturated indie pop with the electronic sounds that ruled popular music a decade prior to that.

Chicago Reader 2010

I tell him I feel bad that he's been saddled with the burdens of ambassadorship for the fledgling fake genre of "chillwave" - the tenets of which his band, Neon Indian, seem to define.

Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com MICHAEL BRODEUR 2010

He's one of the core characters in the story of the indie style known as "chillwave," but music as guileless and pure as Mr. Hawk's is best regarded as art made in isolation—the enchanting and increasingly convincing murmurings of a boy at home alone.

Continental, Experimental Andy Battaglia 2011

He's one of the core characters in the story of the indie style known as "chillwave," but music as guileless and pure as Mr. Hawk's is best regarded as art made in isolation—the enchanting and increasingly convincing murmurings of a boy at home alone.

Continental, Experimental Andy Battaglia 2011

What Hipster Runoff is probably best remembered for, other than accidentally inventing the term ‘chillwave,’ is ‘going down in flames in unhinged guerilla warfare against mainstream/alt double agent Lana Del Rey’ in the site’s last wheezing gasp.

SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE 22 Meaghan Garvey 2022