Style: vaporwave, barber beats
Primary Emotions/Themes:
Thoughts: Ahhhh yes, barber beats. At the risk of sounding redundant this genre is about the only part of vaporwave that I truly enjoy anymore... and even that is wearing a bit thin. I think I have nearly all of the entries into this genre that I need. It all tends to blend together after a while.
Oblique Occasions is one of the bigger names in the genre, and this is for good reason. The music that they create - or construct, whatever you want to call it - is highly representative of the genre as a whole. Not overtly creative, but very pleasant on the ears.
The thing that Oblique does better than most is finding the correct groove to the music and sticking with it. These tracks all have a huge bottom end. When the bass goes it will rumble the very foundations of my house, vibrate the very core of my brain and make me giggle with glee. And that's what is going to be what draws me back to this album over and over.
On top of these delicious grooves you get the typical flavors of barber beats: jazz trumpets and saxophones, Hammond organs making a nice chord, a deeply groovy bass guitar, and some other random trinkets sprinkled in for good measure. It's enough to make my body sway, even if I'm not consciously aware of what's happening.
Punishment is probably one of the poorer names I could have come up with for this album, as the music isn't punishing on my ears in the slightest. This is groovy, sexy music that works perfectly as background music or something to keep the silence at bay. It's not going to win any awards for creativity, but I highly doubt that was the intention in the first place.
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