But back in the doldrums of the late ’00s, it was a novel proposition, not so much an aspiration as an escape. Today, chill is everywhere-as an aesthetic descriptor, a vague lifestyle goal, an overall behavioral imperative. Chillwaveĭate Range: 2008 to 2014 Origin Point: The malaise of the financial crisis Key Artists: Neon Indian, Nite Jewel, Washed Out, Toro y Moi Crucial Listening: Washed Out - “ Feel It All Around” Neon Indian - “ Deadbeat Summer” Further Reading: “ How Chillwave’s Brief Moment in the Sun Cast a Long Shadow Over the 2010s” This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Taken together, they tell a story about culture’s development in the new millennium, with each one inching us a little closer to the gloriously chaotic musical landscape of today. Others, like chillwave, rewired the collective psyche in their own small ways, tweaking how we think about popular music. Some were fleeting ideas that lasted for a season or two before they were replaced by other equally ephemeral notions (looking at you, seapunk). These stylistic dividers, on the other hand, were often fanciful, capricious, even outlandish (though few were as silly as donk or skramz). You won’t find hyperpop or SoundCloud rap or even depressive black metal here-all of those things are more or less stable entities with fixed meanings, however much fans may argue about their nuances. To commemorate Pitchfork’s 25th anniversary, we’ve gathered 25 such microgenres, great and small, that help illuminate music’s evolution over the past two and a half decades.
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Genre terms came to function almost like memes-totems passed along from mouth to mouth, keyboard to keyboard, text field to text field, both reflecting and shaping the cultural landscape they attempted to describe. A lot, too, probably has to do with the fact that in the era of forums, blogs, and finally social media, the discourse around music spun giddily out of control. Much of this factionalization is undoubtedly a function of how the internet facilitates like-minded individuals’ ability to seek each other out.