There's a new genre in town! And as is always the case, online music journalists and bloggers immediately came up with an assortment of completely ridiculous names for it (chill-wave, glo-fi); roughly, detuned-'80s-cassette-esque music created by solitary bedroom producers, which is invariably warm, relaxed, playful, electronically manipulated, and contains some combination of beats, vocals, and guitar. Most of these guys (Neon Indian, Memory Cassette, Washed Out, Toro y Moi, etc.) know each other, remix each other, and tour together, and each covers a different angle with the same set of tools. Anyway, this is all just a long way of saying that "Life of Leisure" is far and away the best release in the genre thus far; Washed Out is more on the shoegaze-ish/pop side of glo-fi, and the quality here is just astounding. The limited vinyl run of 2000 copies sold out very quickly, and I can see why.

Style: Electronic Pop

RIYL: Memory Cassette, Toro y Moi

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2009  Electronic Pop  Life of Leisure  Memory Cassette  Mexican Summer  Toro y Moi  Washed Out  playbynumbers 

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