Entry 1488 - Darkness - П​​​у​​​л​​​я с т​​​в​​​о​​​и​​​м и​​​м​​​е​​​н​​​е​​​м (Bullet With Your Name)

Style: barber beats, vaporwave

Primary Emotions/Themes: mystery, death, life and everything in between

Thoughts: There's a few musical tropes that I am a sucker for. One that keeps getting me over and over again is the trumpet. Specifically a lone trumpet played in an ambient setting with a ton of reverb on it. This combination, when done well, gets me interested in the music nearly instantly... and with Bullet With Your Name, Darkness has created an album that caught my attention quicker than most vaporwave albums.

At it's core П​​​у​​​л​​​я с т​​​в​​​о​​​и​​​м и​​​м​​​е​​​н​​​е​​​м is a standard barber beats album. The slowed down jazz, ambient, lounge style that has been perpetuated by nearly countless artists is all there. What makes this album attractive to me is the fact that so much of it revolves around heavily reverbed instruments, including the aforementioned trumpet. 

Through this reverb the melodies are given a nearly ethereal and ambient character to them. They sound like they are from another world, or I'm in a dream state while listening to the album. Add to that my per-disposition to jazz and ambient music and you have a winning combination. 

Is П​​​у​​​л​​​я с т​​​в​​​о​​​и​​​м и​​​м​​​е​​​н​​​е​​​м something truly special that will go down in the history of vaporwave? No, it is not. What it is though is a well compiled album that manages to keep my attention all the way through. An album that does that in any genre is something to hold on to. In a genre like vaporwave - where I am highly selective - finding an album that keeps my attention all the way through... now that is something rare indeed.