The Balloonist

It's been a long day (again).  Here are some lovely sounds from The Balloonist to just make it all float away.  "Curtain Light" is a soothing, kinda trippy mix of dreampop, chillwave, and lo-fi vaporwave, the perfect kind of track to close your eyes and disintegrate to.  Listen below and pre-order the upcoming "Spirit Duplicator" album here from Wayside & Woodland Recordings.

Donor Lens

Continuing this chilled out Saturday with some warm and gooey vaporwave-tinted electonica from Donor Lens.  New album "As Still as Spring" drops next week on My Pet Flaming.  Pre-order it here and melt away with "A Far Country" below.

Paycheque

LA band Paycheque make a mix of synth pop, new wave, vaporwave, and electro-pop that feels like it's being beamed in from some alternate past.  Check out the vintage-looking video for "Heatwave" below and grab the band's self-titled debut here from Mansions and Millions.

t e l e p a t h

Ambient vaporwave artist t e l e p a t h has been dropping all kind of new music lately, like the hypnotic new album "静かなのにすべてを貫く愛," which roughly translates to "A Love that Is Quiet Yet Pierces Through Everything."  The album is divided into two sprawling 37-minute long tracks that you can snag on cassette here from Geometric Lullaby.  In the meantime, listen to side A's "いつも強く抱きしめて、決して離さないで," or "Always Hold Me Tight, and Never Let Me Go" below.

Yuni Wa

After all that meditation, it's time to dance.  Here's some fun new vaporwave from Yuni Wa to get the blood pumping and the nostalgia dreams dreaming.  Listen to "Time to Go Out" below and grab the new "Ethereal Lover" LP here from My Pet Flamingo.

Black Taffy

Dallas artist Black Taffy has been making weird music for a few years now, always interesting and worth checking out, and new album "Out Moon" might be his magnum opus.  Album opener "Pendulum Swing" is the sound of watching an old black and white movie's musical and dance sequence while time slows and you fall into it yourself.  The rest of the album follows suit with old classical samples, subdued beats, and warbled tape hiss, a dark, surreal, and ethereal world.  Check it out below and pre-order the LP here from Leaving Records.

Tupperwave

I'm still a novice when it comes to the musical genre of vaporwave, but sometimes the heart wants what it wants.  The sound is something akin to taking those early chillwave records from the late '00s and distilling them down to just warbled synths and vibes.  There are hints of mall music, muzak, library sounds, yacht rock, commercials, and bits of half-remembered sounds that all play together in some kind of fever dream.  Australian artist Tupperwave serves that up in spades on his latest album "Grocery Store Sunset."  The album dropped earlier this year but is now available on vinyl.  Get it here from My Pet Flamingo and listen to "My Lucky Stars" below.

Windows96

Brazilian artist Windows96 has been making electronic music for a number of years now, and for whatever reason, i've never really devoted any time to it.  And that's my bad, because i'm really digging the chillwave mall sounds of new album "Yes Da Da Da."  Check out the album opening "Sleep Chamber" below, download the album here from the artist, and just chill out for a little while.

KENMORE Classic

There is something so otherworldly yet simultaneously familiar about the sounds of vaporwave.  It's an odd little genre that pulls half remembered memories of Muzak in public spaces from the ether and mixes it into a lo-fi stew with bits and pieces of synth, reverb, and more.  It's like being in an alien mall, and it's oh so weirdly soothing.  Montreal artist KENMORE Classic just released new album "Woolcowave" which throws in some exotica and library music into the mix as well.  Grab the cassette here from Austin label Mall Talk Collective and listen to "The North Hall" below.

GORE

"All art is recycled."  That's the mantra of Toyko artist GORE, and on new album "テキサスブロンコ," the plundered sounds create a very chilled out and loungey sonic tapestry.  It's very cool.  Check out "マグナム" below and pay what you want for the download here.

MindSpring Memories

Here's some woozy and surreal music from MindSpring Memories, a gooey mix of ambient and Vaporwave that feels like some hazy VHS daydream.  Check out "Grief & Nostalgia" below and get the "Nostalgia & Grief" cassette here from Eye Vybe Records.

TOWERS

Here's a little ambient vaporwave, which is a thing i guess, from a project called TOWERS.  Opening track "TOWERS I" is a sprawling and meditative piece of sound that maybe feels a little like the past disintegrating on itself and blinking away out of existence.  Check it out below and get the self-titled album here from Geometric Lullaby.

bbrainz

Vaporwave is such a weird genre to me, warped, synth-heavy songs that often sounds like shopping mall muzak or the library score to some late '80s/early '90s informational VHS tape.  It's a strange aesthetic to be sure, but also kind of soothing.  Anyway, here's the latest from an artist by the name of bbrainz, the "Internet Lust" LP available here for pre-order from DIY Records.  Listen to "Home Design" below.