Floral Shoppe

Floral Shoppe (Japanese: フローラルの専門店, Hepburn: Furōraru no Senmon-ten) is the fifteenth studio album by American electronic musician Vektroid, released under her alternate alias Macintosh Plus on December 9, 2011 by Beer on the Rug. It was one of the first albums in the experimental genre Vaporwave to gain popular recognition, and inspired many new vaporwave artists.

Background and composition

Floral Shoppe was composed by American producer and graphic designer Ramona Xavier, also known by the stage name Vektroid; it is credited under her alias Macintosh Plus, titled after the computer of the same name. The album is frequently cited as an example of the then-emerging Internet-based vaporwave genre, along with works from other artists released by the record label Beer on the Rug. Prior to Floral Shoppe, she had previously produced other chillwave and vaporwave releases under multiple pseudonyms, including Vektroid, Laserdisc Visions, dstnt, and New Dreams Ltd. Adam Harper of Dummy, in an article about the vaporwave culture, described the album's content as "chopped, glitching and screwed adult contemporary soul alongside twinkling spa promotional tunes."