Where to start with Amherst
Start with Like New — Like New, 2016. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 14 Amherst tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 14 Amherst tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 14 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 9 of the 14 tracks come from Heat.wav alone.
Every dated track here falls between 2015 and 2016, so this room holds one stretch of the discography and not the whole of it.
Every track is filed under vaporwave; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Like New — Like New, 2016. Of the 14 Amherst tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the cerebral end
Yaper Ballad — Yaper, 2016. The lowest head/body reading of any Amherst track in the room (43 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
Love You More — Like New, 2016. The highest head/body reading here, at 79 out of 100 — a 36-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Amherst sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Amherst's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 54 | 36–65 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 64 | 45–76 | ambient → driving |
| density | 60 | 54–65 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 65 | 43–79 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Heat.wav | 2015 | 9 |
| Like New | 2016 | 3 |
| Yaper | 2016 | 2 |
Every Amherst track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Collision Course | Heat.wav | 2015 |
| Counting Hours | Heat.wav | 2015 |
| Find the Time | Heat.wav | 2015 |
| For Two | Heat.wav | 2015 |
| Heat.wav | Heat.wav | 2015 |
| Lady | Heat.wav | 2015 |
| Nobody but You | Heat.wav | 2015 |
| Poinsettia Blues | Heat.wav | 2015 |
| Something About You | Heat.wav | 2015 |
| Like New | Like New | 2016 |
| Love You More | Like New | 2016 |
| Taking Over | Like New | 2016 |
| Pop Rocks | Yaper | 2016 |
| Yaper Ballad | Yaper | 2016 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Amherst's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with ConsciousThoughts — vaporwave, 13 tracks
- Where to start with Android Apartment — vaporwave, 21 tracks
- Where to start with Yung Bae — vaporwave, 37 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Amherst as a solo artist and from the United States. Its contributors tag the artist vaporwave. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Amherst tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 14, across 3 albums. 14 of them carry a date, running from 2015 to 2016. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 14 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 14 of these 14 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.