Writing about vaporwave in 2016 is almost impossible ... Listen to the entire album, if you can spare the time. Put it on in the background as a soundtrack to work to. It's crisp, upbeat, and ...

Notably, none of these songs had names. Instead, Starks gave them numbers because he considered them all background music. Vaporwave’s big open secret is that some artists repurpose Starks ...

That’s a e s t h e t i c. Vaporwave represents the internet’s collective nostalgia, even if most of the web-based sub-culture’s driving creatives are too young to remember the ’80s muzak ...