Yacht Rock Essentials

In 2005, the actor/screenwriter J.D. Ryznar wrote, directed, and produced a TV series for the Los Angeles short-film festival Channel 101 called Yacht Rock. The idea was to tell comically overblown backstories about the creation of a strain of ultra-smooth music from the late 70s and early 80s. As entertainingly corny as some of the tracks here are, they also represent some of the era’s more serious songwriting efforts, exploring themes of longing and regret with a muted tension not even the slickest production could fully smooth over—a sense of contrast and depth the music doesn’t always get due credit for. Interestingly, as mainstream as these tracks were, their richest second life came in the form of 2010s electronic subgenres like vaporwave, which took the soft-focus quality of the music to surreal extremes.

Yacht Rock Essentials (2020)
Blues Rock, Country, Acoustic, Grunge, Art Rock, Post-Punk, MOR, Soft Rock | Apple Music, Apple Music Classic Rock
320 kbps | MP3 | unmixed | 02-11-2020 | 06:45:36 | 939 Mb