exciting!!excellent!! (PDX emo chiptune) w/ The Sunflower Burial, Argiflex, + Ghostwav64

Watch me die as a piece of music truly feels like the soundtrack to a GameBoy game that never existed in a coherent way, something I don’t think was true of any of her EPs under the exciting!!excellent!! name. Opening track “vinyl fantasy x-2” sounds just like an RPG start screen and paints a complete image complete with a breezing wind and other little set dressings which my mind’s eye can see crystal clear. This keeps going on the entire project throughout; “the spirit of beach justice failed to notice you” is either the saddest cutscene or the most slap-in-your-face Game Over screen you have ever seen. “Online!!OK’s” sonics and production sounds like a level up menu. You can really play this game with almost every song.


It isn’t all chiptune, however, Jasmine stays true to her brand in making this an emo-chiptune record. Back to “vinyl fantasy,” she manages in this one song to capture the entire range of art and expression while easing you into the melancholic chords, the somber delivery and percussion that even while programmed sound like they’re coming live from the floor. On the following “new song” we see even more of this bridging of genres, the bridge has a clap along, twinkly guitars but also has a chiptune composition as a backbone. The two never clash, only compliment one another.


Jasmine has also gotten to be both a remarkably better lyricist and vocalist here. Not that she was ever bad, I do want to emphasize, but this is on a much higher level than the EPs. “New song” lyrically is so honest, so open, that as a writer I cannot help but be utterly impressed. The vocals on the “ice key 2” intro are possibly her absolute best as well. Once in a while she also enters a track a bit inwardly but then shows that it’s all by design and bursts with energy." -AsterTracks

With local support by The Sunflower Burial, Argiflex, + Ghostwav64

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