Diskette Park – Stray (2018)

March 25, 2020

Just look at that art! Despite the heavy nostalgic tones, Diskette Park instead wallows in oceanic waves of moody, melancholic synth work, rather than your more [ t y p i c a l ] vaporwave. In fact, as time goes on, and whilst I agree that the genre does have its own solid base, I find that these days it is more of a marker for a starting point; a pointer as to the possible aesthetic or thematic intention of the artist. This is such a beautiful electronic record, and I fear marking it entirely as vaporwave would maybe turn off listeners who are not so heavily into that genre.