chillwave

With their glittery haze of a chillwave classic "TTYL" still winning the hearts of everyone who hears it, our favorite Stockholm dream-pop duo Morabeza Tobacco return with a misty new slo-mo psych-pop ballad, the album-closer from their forthcoming debut full-length, coming this spring on Luminelle Recordings...

Washed Out shares a vintage, surf-y deep cut from the High Times sessions. "Don't Wanna" is one of four previously unreleased bonus tracks that will appear on the reissue of the 2009 chillwave classic, out November 5th. Listen below, and pre-order on colored vinyl here.

Stockholm duo Miljon follow up their wistful Axel Boman piano-house collab with a glimmering, gently galloping, and extremely sweet chillwave duet, tailor made for those of us who are still desperately hanging on to these final days of summer...

Columbus, Ohio experimental electronic pop artist Dallin Stevenson aka Rafting shares his floating, softly shimmering new single, "Loading Screen". With Stevenson's tender, yearning vocals and wistful lyrics -- "We can never be too far away / you and me can arrive / in this life / on time" -- and those pillowy, soft-funk synths, "Loading Screen" occupies some dream-l

Psyched to stumble upon these delightfully woozy lazy-summer-day gems from Montreal's Josianne Boivin, aka MUNYA. Check out her brand new mini-EP of dreamy, gently sun-warped French indie-pop below + grab it on bandcamp (and if you're feeling it, check her lovely Beach House cover as well):

Presenting our second annual summer mixtape of modern yacht rock vibes: Like last year, we’re using the term "yacht rock" loosely here, to include myriad sounds inspired by smooth, sumptous soft rock grooves, while occasionally veering off into balearica, pillowy soft funk, sophistipop, cosmic disco novelties, psych-soul, and darker forms of hypnogogia. Listen/download + check the full t

Washed Out shares another absolute gem from his new visual album Mister Mellow, out later this month on Stones Throw. "Hard to Say Goodbye" is an infectious jazz-inflected summer jam with a disco groove and a breezy, luminous vibe that belies Ernest Greene's darker, wistful lyrical sentiment...

Taken from Adult Swim's new "dream pop electro soul" (fka chillwave) compilation LUXE, which also features new material from Tei Shi, Múm, and others. Listen to Neon Indian's "Theme for a Dream" + Toro y Moi's "Spring" -- both among the waviest things either artist has done in years -- below:

Late last year, Grizzly Bear's Chris Bear created an original score for HBO's weed comedy High Maintenance. And as it turns out, the dreamy soundtrack harkens back to the heyday of chillwave, with tracks like the twinkling opener "Aloha" recalling early Washed Out, while standout "Pup Luv" features Bear's(...

Our friends at 100% Electronica are reissuing Deep Fantasy, the 2012 record from Melbourne, Australia artist Surfing, releasing the cult favorite for the first time ever on vinyl. If pressed to categorize this thing, we'd file the record under vaguely psychedelic lite-funk/dream-pop, or the dreaded (not by us, but you know) "chillwave/hypnogogic pop" tag...