A Vapourwave Nationalist Review of Mantra - VHS LOGOS
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 e...