chillwave

English

Etymology

chill +‎ -wave. Coined tongue-in-cheek on the blog Hipster Runoff in 2009.

Noun

chillwave (uncountable)

1. A genre of music of the late 2000s, characterized by effects processing, synthesizers, looping, sampling, and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines.
   • 2016, Sheila Whiteley, Shara Rambarran, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 418:

     As music created and shaped by the lens of blogs, music forums, and other forms of online comment, chillwave was subject to a backlash almost as soon as it had been labeled and defined.