Style: Barber beats, vaporwave
Primary Emotions/Themes: It's a true vibe
Thoughts: This is it, this is the album that got me back into vaporwave. I've made no secret that I am not on good terms with the genre, especially traditional vaporwave. For the life of me I cannot get into Floral Shop, it's worse than nails on a chalk board. It's one of the very few albums that I cannot find any redeeming qualities of. I hated it so much that I walked away from the genre.
A few years pass and eventually I start hearing rumblings of this new artist who was making vaporwave in the lounge style (think Haircuts for Men [HFM]). Eventually curiosity got the best of me and I checked him out. Needless to say I paid bandcamp for the album that same day.
Macroblank takes the basis that HFM and runs with it. For the longest time HFM was the only one doing music like this, but no longer. Someone else finally started making chilled out groovy beats in the same style and I was all for it. So much so that this album made my top albums of 2020.
The essence of Macro's music is found within the lounge and smooth jazz genre. The samples are carefully curated, chopped and screwed together to create not only a relaxed atmosphere, but one with some of the most infectious grooves I've ever heard. I swear every time this thing hits the record player I'm swaying back and fourth within minutes.
On my other (now retired) blog I did an extended review/interview with Macro on this release. That feels like a lifetime ago. Listening to his albums always brings me back to those chaotic times and the peace that music brought me then. It's crazy how long ago that was, feels like the blink of an eye.
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