Cordavision Music Reviews

It isn’t often for me that I can pick out a specific album that got me into a genre, but there is one exception. Vaporwave has always been a genre I’ve been hot and cold on. The best of the genre is absolutely mesmerizing, and the worst is just… boring. Two artists have luckily been in the former for their entire careers. Saint Pepsi, who now produces under the Skylar Spence name, and luxury elite, one of the most popular names in the genre, and personally one of my favorite producers ever, teamed up for a project for the ages, Late Night Delight . Now, over 8 years after its release, I’m finally giving it a formal review. Let’s just get right into it. The two halves of this project are handled by the two artists. luxury elite takes the first half, which has more of a laid-back, calmer vibe, and Saint Pepsi’s half is more sample-heavy, bouncy tracks. Each side has their highlights, but I personally prefer lux’s take on a late night drive through the city to Pepsi’s. The album is booken...

 

R.I.P. Daft Punk. You will live on forever. No, they didn’t die. It just feels like they did. The duo known as Daft Punk, consisting of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, officially retired their robot personas earlier this week, and this one hit a lot harder than I thought it would. I figured it would be fitting to talk about one of their albums this week because of this, but there was so much to choose from. Discovery , Homework , Human After All , the Tron: Legacy score… There was so much that’s iconic in their discography, but I feel like there’s one project that I feel like I can talk about in full, mainly because I lived through it. This is Daft Punk’s final outing, Random Access Memories . This feels like Daft Punk’s most human record. Ironically, this should’ve been called Human After All . The disco-influenced tones of their past projects are gone, and they’re replaced by mainly a rock-and-roll vibe. It was strange at the time, but it’s all I can remember about...

 

What is the definition of beauty? That’s an odd question to start off an album review, but nonetheless, it’s a crazy question. Google officially defines beauty as “a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.” Now, we’re talking about music here. While there are visuals to most music, some don’t have visuals or music videos, so we take a look at the art of the album cover. Weyes Blood’s 2019 album Titanic Rising is the definition of beauty, visually and audibly. Yet, I haven’t seen any of the music videos that accompany the songs. Why is it beautiful? Why am I associating the word ‘beauty’ with this piece of music? Let me tell you. Whenever I try to get a visual of an album, I look at the album’s cover. It can dictate how I feel about an album. A good cover can help good or bad music, a bad cover could dampen the effect of good music, and a bad cover could even bolster the idea of that music being bad. When I look ...

 

When I said I was bringing back written reviews, you didn’t think it’d be this album, huh? Well, let me flex my ability to write decent articles before I started doing YouTube videos and talk to you about Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven . This album right here is quite an oddball. Scott Mescudi, or Kid Cudi, was in a dark place for some of his life. That’s nothing new, we all have rough patches. Cudi here happens to be a musician, and music is a way to peer into the mind and emotions of that artist. Sometimes, it even connects to you, the listener. When Cudi pivoted from hip-hop to rock on this project, it was pretty shocking. Yes, he’s dabbled in rock music before with his WIZRD group, but a Kid Cudi rock album? The amount of emotion that he puts into his music already was different for hip-hop at the time, but if that was put into a rock album… the concept here was pretty amazing on paper. On paper. This is a pretty ambitious undertaking for such an established name in the rap game. Along w...