The Beautiful Pain of the Holiday Season

by Vacation Bible School

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Oynque I don't often listen to vaporware, but when I do... Favorite track: by yourself in the snow outside of the holiday party.

Rindenberg The fascination with Vaporwave lies in the tension between the goofiness of the selected samples and the foggy, melancholic nostalgia of the musical result. This album consists of songs which I would never listen to in their original form, but like this, drenched in reverb, slowed down, embedded in the white noise of busy malls and churches, I cannot get enough of this. It touches me in a very weird way and gets me in this happysad mood so typical for this time of the year in a wonderful way... Favorite track: alone in a smoky bar at the mall sitting next to some string lights.

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2.	l e a v i n g _ t h e _ p a r t y _ f o r _ t h e _ m a l l 03:46	buy track
3.	s i l v e r _ b e l l s _ h a n g _ f r o m _ t h e _ c e i l i n g 04:21	buy track
4.	alone in a smoky bar at the mall sitting next to some string lights 04:40	buy track
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10.	g o i n g _ t o _ c h u r c h 04:20	buy track
11.	h o l y _ n i t e 02:44	buy track
12.	there's always a good reason to celebrate the holiday 02:58	buy track

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Dedicated to all the swelling emotions that come about during the holiday season. Despite what we might feel or go through, despite loneliness or loss, there is always something magical and worth celebrating this time of year. I wish you all the best. Thank you for another year of churchwave.

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released December 3, 2019

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Vacation Bible School Texas

I create a sub-genre of vaporwave that I call "churchwave." It is the sound of walking through an abandoned church lobby.

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