"The title of this EP is inspired by one of my favorite bands – Swell Maps – and their song “Border Country” from the 1980 record Jane from Occupied Europe.
Vaporwave romanticizes (in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way) the past and I’ve always identified with that sentiment. It’s closer to punk rock than I think many are willing to admit – the exception being that punk rock is antagonistic and vaporwave invites you to experience a time that never was. Both are a piss-take on pop culture with a robust, unique aesthetic. I enjoy “Mickey Mouse is Dead” as much as リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー on Floral Shoppe. That’s the concept behind The Borderlands of Purgatory; the punk rock notion of society devolving into chaos, but you’re riding the blissful high that vaporwave evokes. This syncretistic approach of taking what I like most about punk rock and vaporwave has influenced each of my releases since.
Nothing embodies this feeling better than an abandoned shopping mall. One that’s gutted by scrappers, covered in mold, broken glass, and spray paint. For a time, malls were easily the symbol of American commerce, the cornerstone to overindulgent prosperity. Now they are rotting shells encasing a way of life we’ll never return to. It’s not the first or the last time we’ll discard something in the name of convenience. You could say these dead malls are an allegory that exposes the truth of modern life; we continue forward in a state of vacant limbo, approaching the border separating the utopian myth of our past from Hell beyond; the borderlands of purgatory.
Thanks to Gulf Spa Records for making this reissue possible." - Dead Pisces
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