[Music Review] 猫 シ Corp. - NEWS AT 11

As you might've noticed, its 9/11 today. Of course with such a major event there have been numerous songs made about it, some in memorial, some making fun of it, and even some that support the atrocities committed on that day.

NEWS AT 11 by 猫 シ Corp. is one of the best memorial albums I've heard for 9/11, and the concept is just brilliant. Many people claim that the world changed with the attack on the Twin Towers, and it really did. This album focuses on before those changes, before the plane crashes, happened. The theme is the morning of 9/11, when it was just a regular day, and the album samples numerous television soundbytes of that morning. It can also have a bit of a double meaning: morning, mourning; you see where I'm going with this, right?

I don't listen to nearly as much vaporwave as I used to, and 猫 シ Corp.'s editing is extremely minimal (they basically just make it sound like its playing on a VHS or cassette and that's it), but the album is very enjoyable nonetheless. This is honestly one of my favorite vaporwave releases actually.

For whatever reason though, they also felt the need to include tracks made out of a VHS tape about The Weather Channel. Yeah, WTC and TWC have the same letters, but was this really needed or appropriate? I personally see this as kind of a double album as the second half is so detached from the central theme.

You can check out this album here (vaporwave is just stolen music so I suggest downloading for free and paying for original music instead): https://news-at-11.bandcamp.com/releases