Log off, and drop the solipsism

The new wave of vaguely miserable, web-friendly music for loners proves its makers need some sunshine and vitamin CAs the recent end-of-year and ones-to-watch lists have shown, the personnel may change but there's always a sense of déjà vu: there are veteran sacred cows, the token crossover act, many, many white boys with guitars. And there's always the hip sound du jour, so modish most of its peddlers disavow anything so mundane as a genre name, even as critics foist unwieldy tags (chillwave,...

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