Vapourwave Nationalism - A Vapourwave Review Blog

      Street Smarts - VHS LOGOS     The next album VHS LOGOS released was 2020's "Street Smarts". A much more funky and groovy addition to VHS LOGOS' library. Coming out 6 years after his debut album, it was a welcomed entry. Street Smarts massively improves upon Mantra's usage of sample loops, and takes VHS LOGOS' sound in a direction of an authentic 80s funk style, while retaining all the aesthetics of vapourwave as a genre, with all the songs having that nice crunchy effect that makes it feel like you're listening from a cassette player. -- Track 1 : Singularity -- Singularity starts off with a formula we're accustomed to with VHS LOGOS' style in Mantra. A simple sample loop, implementing the classic vapourwave techniques of the glitchy repeating, as if the tape has gotten stuck. The track having a peaceful and calm atmosphere to it, which gets blown away quite quickly by the next song. STREET SMARTS by VHS LOGOS -- Track 2 : Sony -- Sony shows

   MANTRA - VHS LOGOS     VHS LOGOS is a Brazilian vapourwave artist that I accidentally found one day from a random vapourwave playlist on Spotify, through the second song on the album named "TV2". The crispy aesthetics of the song really caught my attention, even though, for the most part, it is a simple loop. And frankly for a fair majority of the album, the songs are short loops that really give the feeling of short songs and jingles you'd hear for late night adverts, which in my opinion really is true to, and encapsulates the aesthetics of the genre as a whole. As VHS LOGOS' first album, the runtime is quite short, at around 31 minutes, 24 seconds. However the track list is 20 songs long, making each song last about a minute each, except for a few exceptions. Nevertheless it provides a very authentic vapourwave feel, with extremely good production quality that extrudes how much passion and effort went into the album. So let's begin with talking about each ind