I Still Love Vaporwave (Part 2)

8 great albums from the grown-up period of the genre (2016–25)

Vaporwave first appeared in the early 2010s, but the genre’s golden age lasted for just a few years. By the middle of the decade, the hypetrain moved on.

Some producers kept to the original style, developing it further in the depths of the underground. Others expanded into other genres, rejecting the vaporwave category altogether and/or viewing their wor…