George Clanton

Nice post

Personally I find it very samey sounding. I liked the Esprit stuff - very effective gateway to vapor - but all of his later solo stuff has left me cold

I usually avoid hyped albums until the hype dies down a little but this one is actually very impressive.

it's a good album but i'm not blown away or anything, i don't quite get all the rym hype

i think he should have put woodwinds all over this, would have been a good vibe

solid record
think i prefer slide but deffo gonna give this a few spins

I have it a second chance and glad I did

He was the opening act for Caroline Polachek a few months ago, an amiable goof with cool pot leaf and super Mario visuals. I was surprised how much he sounded like Deftones with the heavy guitars replaced by synth drones.

Deftones is stoner music so it pans out

George would probably appreciate that comparison

I was expecting it to be way more vaporwave, but it was fun

anyway I do think white horse's review is spot on. like a lot of 100% Electronica stuff this very much feels like what music might sound like today if a different set of 90s trends really took off. I actually dig how samey his stuff is - I don't think he's repeating himself exactly but he's obviously one of those artists with a specific library of sounds. I guess this feels like Slide & 200% at once but kind of the best of both worlds. plus it sounds nice, although it's still kinda blown out in a way that makes me wonder if he has hearing damage.

saw him last night, this dude is very much enjoying being a rock star right now. crazy to think I was watching videos of him playing to like 3 people in a bowling alley nearly a decade ago. also got to meet death's dynamic shroud (well, 2 of them) and they were incredibly nice. gotta say though that might be the loudest show I've ever been to, even with earplugs in the whole time my ears are still buzzing

album is definitely mastered in the red. it seems like people are latching onto what the record wants to be (voice of a generation post vapor wave recession internet malaise reclaim the promise of the 90s type shit) than what it is (a couple solid vaporwave-pop bangers alongside some less solid efforts)

idk I don't think the record "wants to be" much more than a cool nostalgia-tinged dance record, there are tons of vaporwave albums out there which try to make grand cultural statements but this doesn't feel like one of them. I can tell you at this show it kinda felt like the times I saw LCD Soundsystem back in 2007 but it was a different type of young crowd, I mean these people were geeking out trying to pull his clothes off and shit

as far as the mastering goes I'm never quite sure if his records are actually supposed to sound that way. I always thought it was a bit like James Ferraro's lo-fi stuff where the blurriness makes you hear a lot of cool stuff that maybe isn't actually there. live it sounded awesome but yeah given the volume I can get why he masters them like that