Either you call it Glo-Fi, Hypnagogic Pop or Chill-Wave, there was something going on with music last summer. Dreamy synth melodies that sound like half-remembered soft-rock tunes from the 80′s, recordings on dirty unraveled tapes, memories of memories, summer nights at the beach, surfing… This had to happen at some point but here we are: Yacht Rock is cool again.
To make it simple, let’s say that bands such as Washed Out, Neon Indian, Toro Y Moi, Memory Tapes etc. are a new version of Don Henley‘s Boys of Summer, or a “distorted, faded reminiscence of something like Boys of Summer or was it something else ?”, to be more precise.
New bands ripping off synth pop hits from the 80′s in a meticulous way are just annoying as La Roux can get, but these dudes bring something new to the table, relying on vague childhood memories to depict an era when Ghostbusters was the best movie of all time and you could talk seriously about New Age aesthetic.
Washed Out - Feel it All Around
Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer
Toro Y Moi – Sad Sams
14/10/2010, 10h56, par jb
If you like this genre check out this new all-italian band: Casa del mirto
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07/11/2009, 18h59, par An other Clément
By the way, vocoder+guitar solos have also made a big come-back a little while ago, thanks to Daft Punk.
So, believe it or not, Peter Frampton is *the* visionary figure of the XXth century.
“We at San Francisco Tweed constitute a rare breed of cyclist — ladies and gents who refuse to endure anymore spandex!”- 
Filmed in 2006, german director Florian Gaag’s film 
Booty shakers, you’re gonna love this.
The british band Fuck Buttons’s new video.
Massive layoff wave coming up in the typographe branch!
In the early 80′s in the UK, while Depche Mode and The Cure marry blackness for better or for worst with “New Wave”, the New York “No Wave” scene seemed to involve a much wilder scale of art types.
