ChillWave
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Washed Out: A Woozy Five-Minute Jam
The sweet, double-helix vocal harmonies of Washed Out's "Eyes Be Closed" eerily recall Simon and Garfunkel. Courtesy of the artist
Chillwave , sometimes also referred to as glo-fi , [ 1 ] is a genre of music whose artists are often characterized by their heavy use of effects processing , synthesizers , looping , sampling , and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines. [ 2 ] The genre combines the larger 2000s trends towards 80s retro music and (in indie music) use of ambient sound, with modern pop, as in electropop , post-punk revival , psych-folk , nu gaze , and witch house . It is often described as "summer music." [ 3 ] [ 4 ]