The Rise And Fall Of Chillwave

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Purple Noon, the new album from Washed Out, is the impetus for this week's episode of Indiecast, which finds Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen digging into the rise and fall of the chillwave genre, starting and ending with Washed Out. Purple Noon is an album from a genre strongly associated with nostalgia, but also manages to provide nostalgia for... chillwave itself. In 2020, the genre stands to remind millennials that they are getting older.

Also covered in the episode is Welcome To Conceptual Beach, the expansive, stunning new album from Young Jesus that is already a strong contender for Album Of The Year.

This week's recommendations: Dehd's Flowers Of Devotion and Gulch's Impenetrable Cerebral Forces

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:12.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.0	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.7	We review albums, hash out trends.
0:20.5	In this episode, we're going to do a little bit of everything.
0:23.1	We're going to discuss the rise and fall of Chill Wave and review the latest albums by
0:27.8	washed out and Young Jesus.
0:30.5	My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, Ian Cohen.
0:34.9	Ian, how are you?
0:35.9	Steve, to be, I mean, to be honest, I'm not at all that different than the artists and, you know, bands that we talk about here.
0:45.3	And like those bands, I'm just obsessed with the reviews.
0:48.9	I read all the comments about our podcast.
0:52.0	And the one that stood out were people saying they related to July is Dream Pop and August is for Chill Wave. I said that in the first episode. And right now it is 7 o'clock in the morning in San Diego. I'm already sweating. There is no such thing as central air conditioning in San Diego.
1:11.9	So this is the absolute perfect time to talk about chill wave.
1:15.6	I'm stoked, man.
1:16.8	Like, I've never felt more in the zone.
1:19.7	Yeah, I was going to say that when we first brought up the idea of doing a podcast together,
1:24.4	I feel like the way I enticed you was to say that we will talk about
1:28.3	chill wave at some point. I feel like you were on the fence, but then I brought up chill wave
1:32.5	and you're like, okay, I want to talk about chill wave on a podcast. Any podcast, TV shows, I'm like
1:37.7	the cheapest date. Talk about chill wave and I'm in, okay? So the reason that we're talking about Chill Wave is that there was a new album that came out
1:47.9	by an act called Washed Out.
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