One thing I've really come to hate about music discourse these days is how… pessimistic & cynical it all feels, and has been feeling for at least a couple of years now. Everyone seems to take every opportunity to vocally hate a song that just doesn't impress them. You know what I mean? #DeclanRants
RateYourMusic's top ranked albums for Neo-Psychedelia. Number one is Long Season by Fishmans, number two is Imaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay, and number three is Bocanada by Gustavo Cerati. Notice how none of these three albums sound anything alike?
I'm not convinced Neo-Psych is a real genre anymore.
Like, is it supposed to mean music you can listen to high on gummies without a panic attack?
Oh, I know what I'm putting on my blunt rotation playlist, Death & Romance and the third part of Long Season, cave-shitting noises and all. #DeclanRants
It still disappoints me to this day that HKE is the way he is.
Who would've thought some of vaporwave's most fascinating, alluring, and provocative experiments would come out of nothing more than spite and malice?
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"Fuck vaporwave." – telepath テレパシー能力者, one of the biggest and most monumental titans of vaporwave history, known primarily for creating many of the genre's most beloved albums to the degree of spawning an entire subgenre, before transitioning to new age ambient music.
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Gorillaz need to make concept albums again.
Humanz, The Now Now, Cracker Island, none of these are concept albums. The Fall is only a concept album if you squint your fingernails. The closest they have as of late is Song Machine Season One, and that's their best since Plastic Beach!
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Sometimes I wonder why don't more people listen to weird abstract plunderphonic shit like Billion Dollar Mind, or NYSE, or Eyeclick, or christtt, or hyphyskazerbox, or stab something, or Windows 98の.
but then I remember that I love weird abstract plunderphonic shit, because it's weird–
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If I had a nickel for every vaporwave song that would ruin Toshiki Kadomatsu's Way to the Shore's incredible potential as a sample by virtue of having (fine) vaportrap elements and deeply distracting, unnecessary vocals added in, I'd have two nickels. #DeclanRants #DeclanTalksVapor
I need to know why certain artists are just Against preservation sometimes. Like: Why is James Ferraro's Restoration series in quotation marks? I love the Vektroid repackages, but I'd love to see official versions of all the deleted tracks for penis sake!
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I don't know why I keep getting impressed by just the smallest little details in all sorts of things! I think I have a new medical condition that's not already Autism! Is it Autism 2? Do we have Autism 2: The Autisming in the building right now? I don't know how much more I can take it!
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A screenshot of YouTube's People Mentioned section, listing British former doctor Andrew Wakefield and late American filmmaker David Lynch.
A screenshot of YouTube's People Mentioned section, listing Filipino-American YouTuber Michael Reeves.
A screenshot of YouTube's People Mentioned section, listing American music critic & YouTuber Anthony Fantano and American rapper Tyler the Creator.
The new People Mentioned feature on YouTube… sucks and is so useless for no reason. Why do we have this? What utility does this provide? Guess what videos these screenshots are from. You won't get them right. I dare you. #DeclanRants
Kanye West will be remembered as a decade-defining rapper of the 2000s.
Kanye West will be remembered as a daring rapper of the 2010s.
Kanye West will not be remembered as a rapper of the 2020s.
I think about halfway into this decade, it's safer to say this now more than ever before. #DeclanRants
It's so disappointing how hard it is to find new #Vaporwave albums in this day & age.
Go to the best-selling fresh vaporwave albums page on Bandcamp, at least 95% of what you'll see are physical reissues of records that came out years ago! Help me out here, y'all. >:(
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I feel like men’s barber shops only exist to justify their sexism and way of hairstyling/pulling. I just went to one for the first time in years, and I might never go again. Fuck off with my hair being too "ladylike" and that my hair is easier to take care of when it’s more "masculine."
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Good Willsmith replying to a death’s dynamic shroud & Mukqs show announcement with "Stoked, let’s go! Also, Mukqs, by the way," correcting a typo in the original post. Tech Honors replies "Ugh, oh my god, I’m so sorry. That was my bad. Shaking my damn head. Gonna throw myself into a deep canyon to atone. (I’ll recover in time for the show, no worries.)"
Everything I hear from Tech Honors makes me feel like he’s less & less grateful for having Internet access.
Every couple tweets or posts, he’s just so bitter. He’s not the worst I’ve seen from legendary vapor artists, but let’s be real, that’s a looooow bar to clear.
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@hottakesvapor.bsky.social just followed me, so to celebrate, here’s a list I posted on RateYourMusic where I respond to anonymous hot takes about vaporwave. It was so much fun to make at the time in one night. ☺️ #DeclanTalksVapor #DeclanRants
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It's done! If you care about how #RateYourMusic displays certain Vektroid releases on the website as reissues of their older versions, I hope this episode of #DeclanRants proves satisfying to ya. :3
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