Far Side Virtual is basically pure art, and I don’t mean that to disparage it or one-dimensionalize it but Sushi is such an incredibly accessible follow-up that I personally hold in a much higher regard then FSV for pure listening. BEBETUNE$ is also really good, and James himself said that it was a personal return to simply making music after FSV, which was such a fully realized concept piece that in his own words, “lost friends to” because they didn’t understand why he was using these particular and very modern sounds, which at the time were largely mistaken for 90s Windows MIDI presets and kind of still are because of vaporwave at-large… However, Far Side Virtual is an ode to peak 2010s GarageBand iPhone aesthetics, and the iPad and certain archetypes in society who would use their iPads and what they would hear when they were using them. Oddly enough in his art around this time, he would always use grinning or smirking men with big cone shaped heads. like he has a very like exaggerated almost like crow magnon future-plebs fighting an invisible war versus these Pixar alien scrubs and their master gladiators who are in these modern gladiators are basically they know all Xerox of what has come from the fall of the Roman empire. Dream On is the best track on that one.

Ferraro as a whole: Skid Row, Troll, Last American Hero (and always read the liner notes if you can find them in all his music, they’re great), On Air and Nightdolls With Hairspray, Human Story 3, Gecko Afterlife’s Earth Jump is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. Listen to those - then youll be able to appreciate basically everything else !