SAINT PEPSI meets the METALLIC GHOSTS -- Blockbuster Records // Album Review

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68/100

I tend to spend a lot time scrolling through Bandcamp's assortment of Vaporwave creations, mostly seeking out some strange obscure sounds never to be heard again in the vast expansion of what is known as the internet. I visited upon the album "SAINT PEPSI meets the METALLIC GHOSTS" by Blockbuster Records, which caught my interests with its dull, fogged out cover of Casper the ghost, sipping on a diet Pepsi. I was skeptical as to whether or not Saint Pepsi actually had anything to do with this strange encounter, but it still equally caught my interest. What you will find is nothing out of the usual in this genre. Strange, slowed down instrumentals with a harrowing obsession of the phaser effect found on Audacity.

The album features only one track, lasting approximately 18 minutes. However, this song seems to harbor a number of other short pieces within it that I guess would be the mystique and charm that arises in the release that contrarily makes it somewhat hard to pinpoint its meaning. Vaporwave is the ultimate form of "narrative music"; a genre where every release has a setting and plot within it that tells a complex and intricate story that is incredibly subtle and somewhat hard for inexperienced listeners to identify with. The actual music coming from this release may have been enjoyable, but without a context and it just being chopped up samples, it shallowly becomes passing noise. I would have liked to enjoy this album, but it's really only necessary as a way to experience "the dank" or "reefer" as the young folks may call it. 

There are several pieces of the song that are very enjoyable and sometimes peaceful. Towards the end of the album it abruptly shifts into darker territory however, casting what I would assume to be its "critique on modern capitalism", but without any sort of narrative structure, who knows what the artist was thinking about. This is a very slow release, I could only recommend this album as background music. Something to play as you pay the bills at home in your cyberspace reality, but overall, nothing special. 

I give this album a 68/100. Thanks for reading.

-Wolfenstein OS X