luxury elite & Saint Pepsi - Late Night Delight EP REVIEW
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 bookended with two Michael Jackson samples, both off his Off the Wall album. The infectious groove on “Rock With You” is perfectly translated to a slowed loop on lux’s “ALL NIGHT,” and “Off the Wall” is redefined for a whole new genre on “ENJOY YOURSELF.” In between these tracks, though, is damn near perfection. You can say what side is your favorite, and I won’t blame you.
Listening to this project in the middle of the night is honestly pretty magnificent. luxury elite’s contributions to this are among some of the greatest in vaporwave, and if you’ve heard lux’s music, you can say that a lot about her work. Saint Pepsi/Skylar Spence is also in top form here. If you wanna hear a genre-defining album, Late Night Delight is a modern classic and I cannot recommend it enough.
9/10
Listen here
YouTube
If you want some visuals, Helios the Vaporwave Elf made an entire visual album to go with this. Click here to watch that.
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 bookended with two Michael Jackson samples, both off his Off the Wall album. The infectious groove on “Rock With You” is perfectly translated to a slowed loop on lux’s “ALL NIGHT,” and “Off the Wall” is redefined for a whole new genre on “ENJOY YOURSELF.” In between these tracks, though, is damn near perfection. You can say what side is your favorite, and I won’t blame you.
Listening to this project in the middle of the night is honestly pretty magnificent. luxury elite’s contributions to this are among some of the greatest in vaporwave, and if you’ve heard lux’s music, you can say that a lot about her work. Saint Pepsi/Skylar Spence is also in top form here. If you wanna hear a genre-defining album, Late Night Delight is a modern classic and I cannot recommend it enough.
9/10
Listen here
YouTube
If you want some visuals, Helios the Vaporwave Elf made an entire visual album to go with this. Click here to watch that.
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