modern yacht rock

brat summer's finally officially over, so it feels like the right time to drop the 9th annual installment in our series of modern yacht rock late summer mixtapes...

Presenting the 8th annual installment in our series of modern yacht rock summer mixtapes. Even when it's not, it's still kind of yacht...

Presenting the 7th annual installment in our series of modern yacht rock summer mixtapes: featuring the finest contemporary soft rock, city pop, quiet storm, sophisti-funk, uneasy listening, wavy VHS ephemera, and of course, mad solos...

Presenting the 6th annual installment in our series of modern yacht rock summer mixtapes...

Presenting the 5th annual installment in our series of modern yacht rock summer mixtapes...

Presenting the fourth annual installment in our series of modern yacht rock summer mixtapes: this year's mix was loosely inspired and guided by Light in the Attic's absurdly dope Pacific Breeze compilation of late '70s and early '80s Japanese City Pop that dropped this spring, which the label says lands in some nebulous zone encompassing "easy listening with mutant exotica, tilted techno-pop,

Presenting the third installment in our series of annual modern yacht rock summer mixtapes: As always, we’re expanding the yacht rock universe here to include more modern sounds inspired by those classic easy listening FM-gold guilty pleasures of the late '70s and early '80s, while occasionally veering off into balearica, pillowy soft funk, sophisti-pop, long-lost obscurities, exotica, and darker

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

With the recent return of Sirius XM's glorious seasonal yacht rock channel, we were inspired to compile this mixtape of modern soft rock, sophistipop, vaporwave, balearic pop, cosmic funk, and smooth hypnogogic jams from the past decade or so that would fit seamlessly in the station's rotation, or alongside the legends Fleetwood Mac, Loggins & Messina, Steely Dan, Hall & Oates, Toto, et al