55. is your world collapsing? try online shopping!: 식료품groceries' 인터넷 쇼핑 (ascension) [siglopyum groceries' online shopping (ascension)] (mallsoft episode)

Vaporwave is an art aesthetic that embodies the anxiety, disillusionment, and nihilism of the modern world.

In music form, vaporwave dives deep into these unconscious anxieties, manifesting sounds from past decades - warping them, manipulating them, and summoning the ghost of the good times that were promised by modern capitalism, but never came.

Vaporwave is an expression of the pains of the collective modern unconscious, taking the form of heroin-level escapism, ecstasy-inducing pop music, or dystopian ambient worlds.

Because of its internet-based nature, its aesthetics have evolved so rapidly, further reflecting the chaotic subconscious of the modern mind.

Vaporwave captures the modern unconscious of humans raised by the internet succinctly, and understanding this art form matters.

In each episode, we listen to tracks that make up genre and give our thoughts, analysis, emotions, and commentary on them. Let's set sail on the Virtual Ocean.

And now, for today’s episode.

This is our second 식료품groceries's record on this show. The concept of this particular album is extremely fascinating.  인터넷 쇼핑 (Ascension) is the musical expression of the dopamine cycle of online shopping. It treats the modern-day capitalist consumption cycle as almost a force of nature, something that we can't break out of, and musically it almost honors it the way an artist would honor true natural forces like the ocean, or a mountainscape.

Let's set sail for 식료품groceries' 인터넷 쇼핑 (Ascension).