creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera

that LP is great fwiw

Olsen Twinns

You notice chillwave names are from the most mainstream of 90s children's entertainment.

I still have yet to see that one, but they are local

Not long now until a band called Geocities

or Netscape

yeah actually this stuff has totally moved into Internet/cyber territory over the last year or so. shifted in a large way from analog/video to virtual/digital

there are already last.fm results for bands called geocities and netscape, though not many scrobbles for either yet so there's still a chance to take those names over

nq chillwave, but going off this thread's latest #trend

http://reptarmusic.com/
http://www.collapseboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/reptarzzzzzzz.jpg

dudes gathered a surprisingly big turn-out when they came here to denver. i was really, really astonished.

why were you there?

wait didn't we discuss these guys and their ludicrous outfits somewhere already?

it was this thread, last year: creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera

i think Peak Twins is kinda funny tbh

Ex-gf just posted a track by "Chet Faker" on fb and then called me a snob for rolling my eyes at the name.

C'mon, this shit is PLAYED.

It's ironic how little these people care about choosing their band names!

i think that's more in the soundcloud producer school, ala 'juke ellington' and 'kim jong trill'

See you guys later, i'm going to a house show to see Street Fighter II Championship Edition. j/k

i think that's more in the soundcloud producer school, ala 'juke ellington' and 'kim jong trill'

Yeah, but this is the only thread I knew of that even halfway touched on this subject.

what do you guys think of "Bleakend at Bernie's"?

having now actually heard them I fuck w/ the band Scott & Charlene's Wedding fyi

they have their moments

these dudes are called You Bred Raptors? but i don't think they really belong here

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6117/6356110709_d0acd507a0_z.jpg

i think Peak Twins is kinda funny tbh

― J0rdan S., Monday, July 16, 2012 10:06 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

ok but what about Silent Drape Runners

i don't think anyone playing an 8 string bass with a violin bow belongs here

what do you guys think of "Bleakend at Bernie's"?

― sarahell, Friday, November 16, 2012 3:31 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Weeknd at Bernie's

xp dmr: I just got a booking request from them for a last minute gig.

Silent Drape Runners literally the worst live act I have ever seen

well, I didn't book them, so I hope yr happy

very.

saw a band called wet assed band with a table of xmas presents called beaty heart supporting teengirl fantasy on friday and though im not sure what it means they deserve to be here with bullets in the ass.

― straightola, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:34 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I happened to see this Beaty Heart lot last night and fucking hell. Either Animal Collective is the only band they've ever heard or they're an Animal Collective tribute band who forgot all the songs but boldly went for it anyway. It went from mildly amusing to hilarious to distressingly uncanny pretty quickly. How have they managed to be around for at least a couple of years without someone having a word and them realising the horrible emptiness of it all?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb3PTbBBlvo

that watered-down doumbek type beat has a very World Music vibe to it. Vocals are pretty awful, and there's not much else going on.

i went to Goldsmiths with Beaty Heart...they've always been not great/sounded like Animal Collective. It was quite exciting at the start though, in a weird way. Just in that you go from living outside london and the bands your age are metal acts/funk-rock/sub-kooks indie and suddenly there's a band who sound like AC/Gang Gang Dance playing at houseparties and stuff.

chillumayowave

Does anybody know of a band called Super C? Like the sequel to Contra? I googled it a bit and can't find one, and I think that would be a really badass name for a band, if one were to go the creatively bankrupt route.

I would go see them if they were a creatively bankrupt, ten-minute Nintendocore deconstruction, Vitamin C cover band.

And now there's a band just simply called Twin Peaks
https://soundcloud.com/twinpeaksdudes/stand-in-the-sand

How about a creatively bankrupt Nintendocore Can cover band?

i think the chillwave sound can be amazing when it "works" -- i.e. makes you feel like you are woozy from too much sunlight and drifting off to sleep in a hammock, free-associating memories from your childhood -- i mean, nostalgia is powerful shit, and for people of a certain age the sounds that ducktails and neon indian and toro y moi and whatever work with can be pretty potent if they are decontextualized in just the right way... i don't know i am a fan of chillwave. i don't really care if there a million of these bands because how is it different than a million mediocre punk bands? as a genre it is cool, and a predictable but pleasant manifestation of how everyone with a macbook has access to every synth sound they could ever want.

ducktails is my favorite of these bands, especially their third album arcade dynamics, which i think is one of the top three or four albums of the new decade so far. a modest masterpiece. it's just so transcendentally chill, like playing frisbee with my golden retriever. chillness as a mood gets a bad rap because it is associated with horrible music -- jimmy buffett, dave matthews, idk, the eagles' "take it easy" might be a key text here -- so it's good to have an album that does justice to feeling relaxed on a lazy summer afternoon, maybe reading a book that you're not really paying attention to, just letting your eyes drift over the page...

smh at this Universal Studios Florida pfork rising article from 2009 http://pitchfork.com/news/36595-rising-universal-studios-florida/

chillness as a mood gets a bad rap because it is associated with horrible music

Chillness as a mood is sort of the definition of 'cool' isn't it? The 'horrible music' you listed is some of the best-selling music ever, and seems to be hated mainly by the 'cool' people that would like chillwave.

hm, good point. i guess chillwave is explicitly marketed chillness, so it is (kinda) unique in that sense as a thing that is marketed toward cool people. like grunge music appealed to slackers, but it was all about bitterness, disaffection, anger, and even in some cases severe depression. although there is this undercurrent of melancholy and loss in most chillwave acts (but not in the ducktails album!) that distinguishes it from the great selling "chill" music. i guess it's just the ducktails album that i feel like reclaims afternoon-drinking-corona-on-the-porch music for hipsters.

so basically chillwave is the gentrification of chill, which doesn't sound very good when written out like that, but i'm enjoying my ride on this wave.

maybe chillwave is just grunge to electroclash's hair metal

the timeline is reversed though, because hair metal preceded grunge and electroclash preceded chillwave. otherwise that analogy is fine, i guess. i think chillwave is just a result of the democratization of sampling and similar studio procedures. electronic music can be low budget now, and so more personal than it ever was before.

That was exactly what Adam said

oh yeah, i see now. sorry. good analogy.

why does drinking corona on the porch need to be reclaimed? who stole it from humanity? who is doing this reclaiming?

everything got sunny/beachy/tropical a while back, not just the chillwave stuff. i don't think that vibing out was ever in much need of reclamation, though.

someone quickly reclaim getting high & having a barbecue, summer's almost on us

i think yer first point is kinda wrong -- tbh, at the same time there was the chillwave phenomenon there was also a resurgence in various willfully dark strains of new wave/synth pop/'minimal synth.' tons of reissues of obscure european and american obscurities have come out in the last few years that most decidedly not sunny, even within this post-punk/indie rock/new wave/'underground' framework.