Chillwave or twee-fi? Pop's latest genre folly

Music's hype cycles keep getting faster, and shorter. Toro Y Moi's Chaz Bundick tells how it feels to be caught up in the latest, silly names and allAnyone who fears that all the best genre names have already been taken might have had their suspicions confirmed while ­reading recent blogs describing a loosely ­defined new sound: lo-fi but pop; dance-influenced but bedroom-based; summery but melancholic. The ­dominant mood of songs such as ­Memory Tapes' Bicycle, Neon Indian's Deadbea...

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