Tag: metrosong

Power Lunch releases “Downstream Integration” by bakmahn

12 July 2018 Sunbleach Leave a comment

From everything I’ve heard, business culture in the 1990s was absolutely terrible. Every buzzword sounds like a euphemism for something psychologically unsettling for the employee, like rightsizing (a different word for downsizing), hoteling (where employees don’t have their personal cubicle or office and get a different one based on assignment on a timely basis), and “downstream integration” (which generally means […]

LOGICAL CRASH – OASIS

14 October 2017 Sunbleach Leave a comment

Recommendation: ☹ LOGICAL CRASH is a project of Californian artist Dave Space, who is also the man behind Bonus Fruit and is a significant contributor to Pizza Beast.1 OASIS is twelve songs in twenty-six minutes, and it was originally released in August 2016 on the Clear Visions label. As with the rest of the Clear Visions albums, OASIS was a […]

Ecoscraper – Lithium Excel

26 August 2017 Sunbleach Leave a comment

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Lithium Excel is part of a quirkly microgenre called “metrosong”, which was primarily promulgated by the short-lived label Clear Visions in the summer and fall of 2016. Metrosong refers to a highly polished aesthetic of utopian vaporwave/hypnagogic drift that evokes a hyper-corporate milieu.1 For many of the Clear Visions albums, this involves distinct references to real and imaginary […]

Sud Swap Audio releases “脱出” by Keikyu

27 November 2016 Sunbleach Leave a comment

脱出 is new music out from Sud Swap Audio Brewing, and one of the label’s final albums before going on break for the rest of the year prior to the beginning of 2017. The album consists of a single sixteen-minute track reminiscent of futurevisions and metrosong mixed, sounding ostensibly like a Subway tram recording that’s been screwed and messed with […]

Seikomart releases “CLEANING STAFF” by Love Hotel究極

9 November 2016 Sunbleach Leave a comment

A love hotel? Bow-chicka-wow-wow.1 CLEANING STAFF is five tracks of mallsoft out on the Seikomart label. It sounds like what might be played in the seediest, weirdest, back-alley brothel that you know. Tracks pretty vague and dark; the ten-minute opener “ROOM 612” is vaguely reminiscent of “Strugglin’” by Tricky off of Maxinquaye, except without the oppressiveness of the latter. “ROOM […]

Clear Visions releases “Fit” by ECO Gym

6 November 2016 Sunbleach Leave a comment

Fit is the newest music out by the metrosong label Clear Visions, which utilizes utopian imagery of the near future and sleek production to create feelings of immediacy – and even sterility, depending on who you ask. Fit is a four-track extended-play of the titular ECO Gym; the longest track – “Treadmills” – is lowercase, and “Clean Eats” is a […]

Clear Visions releases “Technological Power” compilation

27 September 2016 Sunbleach Leave a comment

The California label Clear Visions has announced a new compilation album of various vaporwave, metrosong, and electronic music artists, titled Technological Power. The album includes the likes of Daedalus, The Mesh, Apple Watch Infinite, and DJ Dashboard. Most tracks are distinctly downtempo, with a clear sheen of production and a sterile but still lively aesthetic. It’s available as a free […]