75. 🍬 candy apples and razor blades: hallowave by epx90 (halloween 2022 special)

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Happy Halloween! This year Brandon and I take in the Halloween vibes with a strong classical vaporwave record by EPX90.
Hallowave is a 2019 halloween vaporwave album that brings together all the spooky tropes of halloween and turns it into a plunderphonic-heavy vaporwave LP. The record plays like an unlabeled broken casette tape you may have found amongst the brown autumn leaves.
Let's set sail for EPX90's Hallowave.
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