Historically, chillwave wasn’t without precedent. It has to be the case that an album’s worth of this stuff is largely monochromatic from beginning to end. To dismiss it as nothing more than the filtering of decades-old pop sounds through a postmodern gauze is too reductive, but its undeniable program of nostalgia-inspiring means that it can’t stray too far from certain techniques without losing what makes it so immediately arresting. Indeed, the nature of its fixation on the past kind of ensures that about it. The much-maligned chillwave subgenre has as part of its essence a complacency with not moving forward. ![]() It’s easy not to expect much from acts like Toro Y Moi.
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