Style: Ambient, barber beats
Primary Emotions/Themes: An ethereal trip through the barber beats genre.
Thoughts: In the beginning there was silence. From the silence Chuck Person was born and with this entity eccojams vol 1 was unleashed upon the silence. From this the essence of vaporwave was born, and it evolved from the one into the many.
One of the many became known as Haircuts for Men (HFM). They created music that was unlike anyone else within the vaporwave spectrum... and we laid our ears upon it, and it was good. This was the state of things for many years, and it seemed as if HFM would be the only essence in this small crevice of vaporwave... but then the renaissance happened.
HFM all the sudden was not the only actor in this field anymore, many artists - seemingly out of no where - took root and began releasing a myriad of albums. The collective mind laid our ears upon this and dubbed it barber beats (actually I think Aloe City came up with the term, but that's neither here nor there).
Gore has quickly become one of my favorite artists to come out of this barber beats renaissance. If there is one criticism of the genre, it's that it all sounds too samey. A criticism that can also be levied against lo-fi hip hop, and for me to add a record to my collection in both genre's at this point it must be exceptional. 答えられない祈りis that exceptional.
What Gore manages to do with samples and beats brings me to otherworldly places. This album's cover is about perfect, this album sounds like an act of worship. The beats are strong, but never overpowering. The melodies are drenched in reverb and are tuned to match the lethargic beats perfectly. In short, this thing grooves, and it does so hard.
This is the perfect music to put on and lose myself in. It's perfect for active listening, it's perfect for passive listening. It's simply one of the best entries into this budding genre to date. It makes me incredibly excited to see what else Gore can come up with in the future.
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