Title: Floral Shoppe
Artiste: Macintosh Plus
Genre: Experimental/Vaporwave
Familiarity: Ze-ro!
Recommended by: TechnicLePanther
Expectations: Expect weirdness! I see the track titles are all in some alien language, so I won't be transcribing those. If that doesn't suit, then you can all kiss my perfectly-formed backside.
1. : Nice sax and piano opening, but then there are samples flying in and out at all sorts of angles, something I absolutely hate. This is not a good start. Okay that was awful.
2. : Nice sort of cheerful synth but its really like some sort of seventies soul/pop song, until near the end where it gets all staggered and twisted up and warped. Still, for nearly six minutes it was listenable. Got to be worth an Orange of anyone's money.
3. : This however starts stuttering from the beginning, so we're Caretakering again, are we?
Back to Red we go. Oh wait: might be settling dow ... no, back to the warped stuff. Sigh.
4. : This one on the other hand was alright. Soul/ Funk again but they left it alone.
5. : Big spacey keyboard; pretty good tune all told, and not freaky at all.
6. : Actually this is really gorgeous. Great guitar work. Please leave it alone and don't start chopping it up and messing with it!
7. : Back to the stupid repeating samples. This sounds like something Frownland would do. And there's six minutes of it. I think that earns it a Red. Actually as it goes along it gets better. Like that sax and it's settled down now. Changing to Green.
8. : Short but not bad.
9. : This one's pretty good too, kind of sense of Vangelis about it.
10. : I like the way this is constructed: the kind of almost industrial sounding synth and percussion, the vocoder-heavy vocal. Yeah, I like this.
11. : Yeah, was enjoying that till it just cut off abruptly at the end. Don't know whether that was ineptitude on the part of the uploader or if it's meant to do that. I'll still Green it though.
End result: I'm rally not sure what I just listened to. In the main, it was pretty good music, some of it quite excellent. At times I felt like I was listening to seventies soul, at others nineties electronica, and then the likes of James Blake and The Caretaker. Very odd. On the whole, though, I think I enjoyed it.
So, Love or Hate? I'll give this a
Love.