Style: Vaporwave with vocals
Primary Emotions/Themes: Channeling that child like feeling of innocence and freedom into audio form
Thoughts: I pulled this record out this morning and had completely forgotten what it sounded like. I dropped the needle and instantly I'm taken back to summer in high school. Carefree, no responsibilities, complete freedom. That's what George has captured in 100% Electronica.
Somehow Mr. Clanton has taken bleeps and bloops, put them through a vaporwave filter and churned out an album that makes me so incredibly nostalgic for something that has never existed. That's quite the achievement.
The music on 100% Electronica is essentially pop that has been slowed down, and somehow given a lazy feel. It's this every specific combination that gives this album it's charm. It's instantly digestible, and at the same time it feels like I'm halfway into a dream. The instruments and sound design itself is such that the music goes back to the early to mid eighties. Mash that all together and you have a somewhat surreal take on a music style that is long past but at the same time feels fresh.
The music is one half of the equation, George's voice is the other. To say that this is a well rehearsed and highly refined performance would be an outright lie. It's quite the opposite. This feels like it was thrown together at the last moment... like they had someone lined up and they bailed two hours before recording, and George decided to lay the tracks down himself.
As crazy as that all sounds, it fits the music so perfectly. It makes the music so much more approachable, like someone made this for a back yard concert. This is one of those magical albums where nothing seems like it should work, but when you put everything together it does. This combined with the sequel album is some of the finest vaporwave to ever come out of the scene.
Written June 30th 2024
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