Album Rating: 4.0

The Dear Hunter has nothing on this.

Album Rating: 4.0

Fun fact. The bass in Innocence is 800 % 80's

So this is what 90s rave went noir sounds like, huh?

not at all wrong decade entirely tbh

Album Rating: 4.5

Well this thread was a great read and I can only assume the album is even better



so will check soon

its aoty

Album Rating: 4.5

on the 1st track and damn this is vaporwavey af but at the same time ridiculously catchy

its not that vaporwavey tho its synthwavey

Album Rating: 5.0

Speaking of vaporwave, Bandcamp is completely unbrowseable right now because a few vaporwave labels put all their releases for free and literally every one of their albums floods up the top sellers chart.

oh

I see more vaporwave than anything. And I think that's why it's not necessarily my thing. I've tried vaporwave and just can't get into it, but I see some Washed Out Within and Without-era type vibe from "It Makes the Babies Want to Cry." That's probably why that's the only song I like. In fact, I'm pretty sure that "Eyes Be Closed" and "It Makes the Babies Want to Cry" have the same background music.

"not at all wrong decade entirely tbh"
Well then give me a gypsie explanation.

First song I czeched sounded good, though.

Album Rating: 4.5

im glad everyone likes the album, this guy deserves more recognition

Brushedred going in on this thread like he fuckin knows the first thing about music lmfao dude is so bitch-basic it hurts

@wolfe well a defining characteristic of vaporwave is satirical disdain for 80s pop culture while one of synthwave is nostalgia for it and since much of his other stuff is vaporwave ud insinuate this is the former from an aesthetic angle but from a technical standpoint it doesn't sound like he's really utilizing many of the inherent techniques of vaporwave at all and it also comes off more nostalgic than ironic. Either way, the result is very, very 80s.

It doesn't come off like there was a whole lot of plunderfucking, slowing and obscuring samples and all that, and nothing about the art or themes or sounds themselves seem very vaporwavey in nature. Pretty sure he made most of this himself with emulated synths and programmed percussion and all that so yeah. Synthwave. I could be wrong it's hard to say cuz it's done so well but yeah this comes off way more on the synthwave side of things than vapor

Album Rating: 4.5

no wonder I confused the 2 then, I really am not familiar with 'ironic' music of any kind



Also can you explain the difference between those 2 and chillwave?

chillwave isnt as focused on the 'soundtrack' aspect of things as stuff like synthwave but still very much influenced by retro 80's music. its often more 'downtempo' or 'chill' than synthwave but largely quite similar in the techniques of sampling, looping and processing and is heavy on the synths too. all 3 are very similar and are better considered as 'aesthetics' rather than actual genres as they all can draw from many different aspects of 80's music and combine them with even more modern indie ass bullshit genres. if the aesthetic was a spectrum i'd probably place chillwave in between synthwave and vaporwave as it often draws from the whole witchhouse movement in how it is created which is much more akin to vaporwave than most synthwave im familiar with.

like a lot of vaporwave, much like witchhouse, does not use any original material at all, which is probably why blushed mentioned washed out because a lot of his early stuff was primarily just slowed down songs that he sang over. where-as a lot of synthwave im hearing these days has the artists actually incorporating their own synths and percussion instead of simply sampling, looping, and effect processing.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Speaking of vaporwave, Bandcamp is completely unbrowseable right now because a few vaporwave labels put all their releases for free and literally every one of their albums floods up the top sellers chart."



I know right, last time I tried looking vaporwave up on bandcamp I didn't find much because it was so saturated, so I looked at the related tags and clicked "mallsoft" and there was like 20 different releases by the same person with images of near naked Japanese women under the top selling tab. They all sounded nearly identical too.