Pad Chennington - Has Vaporwave Gone Too Far?

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adW4bp3FAoM

{ 2:53-2:54 } This thing is just not music.

{ 3:06-3:22 } ▣ 世界から解放され▣ is really just more of an audio piece expressing the ironies of
the almost the no-rule zone vpw has blanket us with after all these years, while trying to exploit
the critiquing discussion and debate that vpw community always seems to spark up about
something that the artist might have only spend like 20 minuts making.

{ 4:33-5:05 } Everything happens so quick and so radically you can't even fathom or begin to
predict where what sound will come next or anything like that. You'll never feel a bridge or a verse
coming or a drop in the bass, it's a free-for all, a war that sound like it's taking place between the
glitchy components of an eroded WHS tape trying to boot up after years of abandoment. Upon
loading up the album and pressing play, you're pulling open a highly pressurized latch to thousands
of sounds who have been trapped, dying to be released from this overly-crowded hardware
hellhole they've been stuck in for years.

{ 5:10-5:30 } [...] but there's no doubt that this thing is unbelievably interesting to listen to. It just
feels like something we were never meant or allowed to see, some piece of forbidden lost media,
scrapped and discovered at the bottom of some dark murky garbage filled lake. And somehow just
barely playable once putting it into the extinct and outdated hardware used to play.

{ 5:30-6:11 } There were moments at times on the album —to my surprise— where I would feel
maybe some sort of beat or organization begin constructing, like on the third track,
✭✰✭PRIMETIME 今日のプログラミングLATENIGHT✭✰✭. We get this nice little intro hip hop
beat (that's kinda hot [...]) and it's being looped at this angle, it's a little slightly —[it] makes the
measure pretty interesting and catchy, but NOPE: give this thing like 7 seconds and all of a sudden
it gets hit with like a baseball bat and shatters into a kabillion pieces and you're right back into this
cyclone of the never-ending shopping ten-speed grinding-blender this album truly is.

{ 6:45-6:50 } The album advances dragging you right back into the confusion with track six [...]

{ 7:37-7:52 } The remaining tracks of the album still keep up with this theme of chaos in regard to
its off-putting, off-time, and far-from-the-norm non-catchy sampling [...] its hollow filters make
this whole experience feel extremely empty.

{ 8:38-8:57 } On ▣ 世界から解放され▣ we're given the hieroglyphic-looking tracklist paired with

the album artwork of Amaral Ray, the main character in the first Mobile Suit Gundam. I do think
the character's emotion emphasizes these two feelings of intense animalistic chaos mixed with
the regret, sorrow and grieving that the tracklist provides (whatever this dude is looking at seems
to be really messing them up).

{ 9:57-10:20 } ▣ 世界から解放され▣ is vaporwave to the highest degree. The concept of music

being quite possibly nothing without the accompanying aesthetic. […] it is fueled by cheap thrills to
the highest degree, except it's performed with such considerable focus to no rhyme, reason or
fluidity that not knowing what comes next really does attract you in, wanting to listen to more.