mydata
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80
Katie Dey's fourth album makes the post-apocalyptic, internet-obsessed, cyber-cultural, omniscient black hole seem super sexy.
75
The Australian singer-songwriter eases up on her customary digital glitches and manipulated vocals for a warm record about the difficulty of forging intimacy through technology.
75
mydata is Dey’s strongest album to date. She enlists a variety of glitch-pop wonderment and mixes them all with affective synths. This enrichment makes this go-round more personal too, creating a strong backdrop for the subject matter.
Katie Day once again stuns and mystifies with the trippy, beautiful and deeply emotionally charged 'mydata', another home run for the incredibly talented Aussie native who has been consistently been dropping some of the most beautiful and emotional bedroom pop albums of the decade. As of now, this may be my least favourite album of hers, but purely because her last two are two of my all time favourite albums of all time, and over time, the less reverb-heavy, minimalist, even more vocal focused ... read more
"mydata" is a satisfyingly weird and experimental yet also beautiful set of pop songs from Katie Dey. While some of the vocal manipulations and strangely grating programming on some drums and synths did rub me the wrong way at times, the songs manage to balance the beauty of the arrangements with abrasive but not overpowering effects in a very skilful way. Might grow.
Katie Dey returns with what might be her most straightforward and immediate series of tracks yet that never once sacrifices her unique sound. "mydata" is an emotionally charged, beautifully produced venture into each fiber of her being, with a longing for love, self-fulfillment, and brightly illuminated glimmers of hope all acting as a series of 1's and 0's that make up the people we are and aspire to be. Katie's garbled and glitched-out vocal performance feels a little more ... read more
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Track List
- darkness
- dancing
- happiness
- leaving
- hurting
- word
- hopeless
- loving
- closeness
- hoping
- bearing
- data
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Added on: June 24, 2020