Portlandia) perhaps summed it up best. Faced with a hulking great recession, the indie kids pivoted en masse to a lackadaisical, plimsoll scuffing kind of synth-pop defined by beachy escapism and an obsession with nostalgic analogue sounds.
If only we had known back then what horrors awaited in the following decade.Washed Out has clung to chillwave ever since. Albums ‘Within and Without‘ and ‘Paracosm’, from 2011 and 2013, also rode on similarly half-audible vocals and lo-fi sounds.
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