Totw: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma_Love’s Refrain

This track with its washes of lo-fi synths distorting their way into landscapes of reverb and noise makes it share the same sonic soundscapes as many tracks in the vapourwave genre.

Over the duration of the track the blissful synth and guitar elements are slowly corrupted with further distortion until they are relics of their former selves. Quivering under the duress of white noise and tape hiss until they finally collapse abruptly into nothingness. It’s this powerful use of processing that creates the mood of the piece and drives the track forward. Turning a fairly minimalist composition into something far greater:

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