Haircuts For Men – 大理石のファンタジー (2016)

January 19, 2023

Haircuts For Men’s discography can be quite intimidating, and I went into this, which has been on my to-do list for some time, believing it was a fairly recent offering, but it’s actually quite old. This is the problem when all of the album covers are fairly abstract in the same style, all in Japanese, and all, more or less, of the same consistent quality. Even if every record of his was a banger, telling them apart the further I go into the discography, well, that’s becoming harder and harder.

大理石のファンタジー is fantastic however. You could accuse it of rehashing the same old same old, but as for what I primarily listen to vaporwave for, being to chill out and mostly as background music when I’m working and so on, this is just perfect for that. Slow, treacle atmospheres are punctuated by electronic beats and that unshakeable feeling of a past that is now lost forever.

I really enjoyed the last two tracks, “彼女のお気に入りのディスコを閉じました” and “家族戻る前に”, and it really felt like the record was looking up before finishing on a high crest.