I think Chillwave got an undeserved bad reputation, and now it's a dirty word. It's like the word "hipster" where people aren't comfortable using the word without a ton of disclaimers. But I loved when it was big. The best artists of the genre were pretty great at pop song craft (new Washed Out, Toro y Moi) and/or sample deconstruction (Neon Indian, old Washed Out).

I too like it better than most of the genres that influenced it, except for funk of course.

I feel like Toro Y Moi was really the only dude to deliver after the initial round of chillwave shit. Washed Out's album was pretty good, but I definitely prefer the EPs and Neon Indian will never make a song as good as Deadbeat Summer.

Weird. I put off listening to Neon Indian because I thought it would just be a bunch of lesser Deadbeat Summers, but now that I have I think that's one of my least favorite songs on Psychic Chasms.

I agree that the Washed Out EPs are better than the album, although I think it's a really good album.

the lasting effects of chillwave:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScKpj2DbHkQ[/youtube]

even tho Mad Lib was making hazy Dilla-inspired beats long before chillwave started...I dunno, I just wanted an excuse to post this awesome song

Chillwave is a very nostalgic kind of music to me and almost always tries to promote a kind of escapism into better times of the past visually more than anything else. I read an article on pitchfork about how it's built more from tangible objects we see (which are coincidentally the kind of currently in-style instagram-ed 80's stuff we see--wayfarers, tank tops, polaroids, etc). If anything, it's probably the closest music there is to accurately capture the current hipster image.

The music itself I'm pretty lukewarm to, as I find it more effective as a social setting additive than the personal immersion it sounds like it should have.

I'm only making a list of 20. I think the less you pick, the more you say about yourself.

imma see GY!BE

Well fuck, I didn't even know they were touring. Now it's all sold out in Philly. Guess I'll just KILL MYSELF.

are you going to the show in boston? i just got tickets a week ago.

it'll be first time in Boston since March.

Well, FUCK

Jesus. Don't stand too close to the stage.

add to that

Magnetic Fields + Matana Roberts + Joanna Newsom + Raincoats (playing their debut) + Young Marble Giants (!!! playing all of colossal youth) + Thurston Moore/ Jeff Mangum/Sun Ra Arkestra/Low/Earth, also Boredoms, Half Japanese, Robyn Hitchcock, Olivia Tremor Control, Group Doueh, Mount Eerie

ATP has consistently proven itself to be the greatest festival of recent times from just a purely musical point of view. other places might have more festive atmospheres, but every single atp lineup has made me weep for not being able to be there.

The Magnetic Fields + Joanna Newsom + Raincoats + Young Marble Giants + Jeff Mangum + Boredoms = Wet dream

mbv was the loudest show I've ever been to