#DeclanLikes netbooks.WRLD – xmas (peace on earth)
@netbooks.bsky.social
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#vaporwave #christmas #eccojams #christmasmusic #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #ambientmusic
The cover art of Donor Lens' As Warm as Summer, featuring an obi strip to the side with an eye logo, the artist & album titles in English & Japanese, and the cassette tracklist split between A & B sides. The cover itself is a blurry image of a dog with round sunglasses, with some deep indigo blue lighting and an old paper texture overlaid.
#DeclanLikes Donor Lens – As Warm as Summer
Nah, I'm actually ashamed I did not listen to this one as soon as it came out. The duo came through with some of the best classic vaporwave I have heard in years, with gorgeous sample interplay and Burial-styled ambient cuts in between.
#DeclanTalksVapor
The cover art of BPD SUPERSTAR ULTRA by hyphyskazerbox. I wish I could describe it in detail, but it's so much design-wise.
#DeclanLikes hyphyskazerbox – BPD SUPERSTAR ULTRA
She's so fucking back. We're so fucking back. I can't even begin to describe this (yet), but the chaos flavour of the month is at its most relentless in a long time. Cannot wait to digest this for the next several weeks.
@hyphyskazerbox.bsky.social
The cover art of I Love My Computer by Ninajirachi, which shows her lying on the floor surrounded by several computers, monitors, keyboards, mice, cords and other room accessories.
I have never fallen in love with an artist & album so fast after I went to hit play.
#DeclanLikes Ninajirachi – I Love My Computer
2010S-STYLE FESTIVAL EDM IS FINALLY GETTING THE LOVE & RECOGNITION IT SORELY DESERVES, AND I WISH I'D FOUND THIS ARTIST MUCH SOONER. 😭
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#DeclanLikes Camila Cabello – psychofreak (feat. WILLOW)
The production is wonderful, the lyrics click for me, and this song and C,XOXO almost make me forgive Camila for making Señorita… Almost.
open.spotify.com/track/705dwK...
The cover art of Agnar's The New Internet, featuring an old CRT computer screen in the corner of a room on top of a dresser, with the neon green text "piece of crap" emanating off of the front and beyond.
#DeclanLikes AGNAR – 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩™
This new playlist that @agnar.bsky.social curated is, in my view, the perfect embodiment of the current experimental internet music scene, featuring many radical peeps that I look up to, and a wealth of creativity across the board.
bandcamp.com/agnarfan/pla...
The cover art for Vistas by Ghost Enterprise, featuring a Windows Vista taskbar, and a futuristic aquatic background featuring bubbles, water textures, and a goldfish.
#DeclanLikes Ghost Enterprise – Vistas
So this was a shock: The guy who rapped on a 3D Blast song created a lo-bit 2000s tech throwback with apt titling, great pacing, and some of the most excellently curated samples I've heard in vaporwave in a long time, all in under 41 minutes!
#DeclanTalksVapor
#DeclanLikes christtt – new world
Happy 5 years.
Here's to the new world once again.
@jcz.bsky.social
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The cover art for Miley Cyrus's Something Beautiful, which depicts her modelling in a stylistic outfit that I wish I could describe in words that make sense.
I finally committed my words to metaphorical ink.
#DeclanLikes Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful
#DeclanReviews
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The cover art for BEFORESEEN by UNTOWARD.
#DeclanLikes UNTOWARD – BEFORESEEN
I am incredibly proud of this mini Various Artists album I curated for my netlabel. It's an immersive, circular experience of vapor & eccojams, made by greatly talented plunderfolk I look up to and look forward to releasing more from.
untoward.cargo.site/unto-001
The cover art of International Monte Hills Week by Monte Hills, which depicts a simple dachshund parade balloon floating in the sky, coloured cyan, magenta and yellow, as spiky CMY stripes surround it like a cartoon explosion.
#DeclanLikes Monte Hills – International Monte Hills Week
@montehills.bsky.social
Motherfucker, this is tight!! Some of the punchiest production I have heard this decade, with just the best bass synths, percussive beats, and future funk-type samples to make the whole thing sound crisp & refreshing!
The opening still frame from the music video to Evil Nine's Crooked featuring Aesop Rock. Two blue-coloured evil-looking cartoon characters looking at the camera with the night cloudy sky behind them.
#DeclanLikes Evil Nine – Crooked (feat. Aesop Rock)
This is exactly what the perfect 2000s urban sound is like to me: that Nu Skool Breaks beat, that tar-thick bass, Aesop's unstoppable self-duet energy, all the little samples, but most importantly: the synth pads.
open.spotify.com/track/7AvZYh...
#DeclanLikes ANNIVERSARY VOL.12 by @bizcasual.bsky.social
Another excellent compilation by the monolithic internet music label. I find the mixing of tracks on this particular one to be among Zobele's best; the run across the first four tracks was enough to contain momentum for the rest of the hour!
#DeclanLikes Everything Everything – Breadwinner
NINEELEVENNINEELEVENNINEELEVENWHEN
IREPEATITIREPEATITIREPEATITIREPEATAGAIN
youtu.be/8BmH0iHmYnw
#DeclanLikes Sugababes – Round Round
…Maybe one of my favourite hit songs in Australian history?
youtu.be/FHh86ySgKrA
I adore shit like this. You can't convince me that these kinda projects aren't deeply alluring because of their brevity and anonymity.
#DeclanLikes 1381 – Collected Works
My favourite of the three records is Castle, but Feudal does come close with more consistently ominous songs.
#DeclanTalksVapor
The cover art of ZONE EATER's Guest Mix for Mantis Radio, featuring a giant carnivorous worm, a la Dune's sandworms or Splatterhouse's boreworms.
#DeclanLikes ZONE EATER – Mantis Radio 228 Guest Mix
Man, I hope @nmesh.bsky.social comes back to this side-project someday. The crossroad between vaporwave, metal, ambient, and electronic music has so much potential, and this 50-minute mix showcases all of that and then some. Utterly spellbinding.
#DeclanLikes NEW MEXICAN STARGAZERS – thermal narrative report
River was super generous to give me the chance to listen to it early, and I'm happy to say it's absolutely rad! Another excellent addition to their catalogue of hypnagogic ambient, and if that sounds awesome to you, they have tons more!
#DeclanLikes dodie – Guiltless
Finally listening to the Build a Problem bonus material, because the way they were attached to one of my favourite experiences of the 2020s was done so… shoddily. But now, giving it a go, I can say that this one resonated with me due to recently… disappointing events.
The cover art for Lonely People With Power by Deafheaven, displaying a woman talking to someone in their red car's window.
Man, I'm so glad I got metal to click with me last year. It's perfect to listen to when my anxiety is at its worst, and it helps me overcome it, so it's just a complete win.
Anyway,
#DeclanLikes Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
Doberman might be the best metal song of the decade thus far.
The cover art of Bon Iver's SABLE, fABLE, which depicts a single black square in front of a coral pink background.
#DeclanLikes Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE
More than that, even. This is my favourite Bon Iver album and the first one to ever truly click & resonate with me. It's a mini-concept mini-double album about having survived your worst years and finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
The cover art for 夜明けが訪れる by telepath テレパシー能力者, which depicts a dark staircase shone by a roof light window above with a decorative plate on the wall and a ghostly figure faintly seen on its stair rails.
#DeclanLikes telepath テレパシー能力者 – 夜明けが訪れる
But naturally, a return to vaporwave this sudden after this long warrants a strong and conflicting response from someone like me. So if you wanna hear my full thoughts, please enjoy my excessively long review: rateyourmusic.com/music-review...
#DeclanReviews
#DeclanLikes Miley Cyrus – Prelude & Something Beautiful (singles)
😧 …
ohh my god,?…
I think the writing credit on Prelude from Cole Haden of Model/Actriz fame (of all bands???) should tell you all you need to know going into it.
Miley's blend of smooth soul with explosions of psych rock… jesus!
THE GODS MAY THROW A DIIIICE
THEIR MINDS AS COLD AS IIIICE
AND SOMEONE WAY DOWN HEEERE
LOSES SOMEONE DEEEAR
#DeclanLikes ABBA – The Winner Takes it All
It's easily my favourite ABBA song, with S.O.S. taking a close second. Emotionally, this is on another level. Agnetha's greatest vocal performance.
ｎｅｗ ｇｏｌｄ， ｆｏｏｌ＇ｓ ｇｏｌｄ
ｅｖｅｒｙｔｈｉｎｇ ｗｉｌｌ ｄｉｓａｐｐｅａｒ
#DeclanLikes Tame Impala & Bootie Brown – New Gold (feat. Gorillaz)
The cover art of Camila Cabello's C,XOXO, depicting a close-up on Camila's face licking a blue lollipop staining her now blue-coated tongue, with a blurry teal backdrop of a fence. Parental Advisory: Explicit content.
#DeclanLikes Camila Cabello – C,XOXO
Any questions?
Fun Fact: At 2:08, I keep thinking the sampled vocals on SAINT PEPSI's Strawberry Lemonade are chopped up and singing:
█ "but if you want my love
█ I'm delicious – windows"
I normally hate misheard lyrics because they ruin my time.
#DeclanLikes SAINT PEPSI – Strawberry Lemonade
#DeclanTalksVapor
Happy 10th birthday, NO NOW. You are one of the hookiest, most sonically captivating, overwhelmingly transcendent pop & R&B records of all time, and it's a shame that hardly any albums sound like you even a decade later.
#DeclanLikes Clarence Clarity – NO NOW
One of my favourite albums of all time.
The cover art of Dante Mars Ajeto's Celebrating Digital Artifacts, which displays the artist name & album title in uppercase English with underscores for spaces, along with the artist & title in wingdings below each of them. The titles are aligned to the lower left of the cover art, with the background consisting of incredibly glitchy pixels.
#DeclanLikes Dante Mars Ajeto! – B5 infp.mp3
I really could go on about the perfections of this album until the day I die, meet god, and bite his dick off. The atmosphere of this particular song is transcendentally intoxicating. I cannot get enough of it. #DeclanTalksVapor
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