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This record fascinates me. I’ll admit that musically it can be a little meandering at times and there are a lack of real ‘bangers’ on here. But man, the idea behind this thing is so cool. An actual AI delivering the vocals?? That’s amazing.
This is also impressive as it doesn’t really come of as gimmicky. It works into the narrative of the record. The vocals are wobbly and childlike in ‘Speech and Ambulation’ - growing into themselves as the track ... read more
This is also impressive as it doesn’t really come of as gimmicky. It works into the narrative of the record. The vocals are wobbly and childlike in ‘Speech and Ambulation’ - growing into themselves as the track ... read more
I don't really understand what's the point of this? I think that it is a kind of experiment, Mouse on Mars wanted to show, how artificial intelligence would have sounded if it had had a voice I guess. Well great experiment, the result is that it sucks.
This is easily one of the coolest concept albums: implementing AI, deep fakes and machine learning technology to create music about that very subject. The masterfully layered textures presented in the album help to create an atmosphere that feels like a fractured representation of humanities music. It strays into very strange and intriguing areas (e.g. the cut up ‘spoken’ sections) which makes it challenging to digest at times. Unfortunately, the musical quality of the tracks ... read more
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Track List
- Engineering Systems
- The Latent Space
- Speech And Ambulation
- Thousand To One
- Walking And Talking
- Youmachine
- Doublekeyrock
- Machine Rights
- Go Tick
- The Fear Of Machines
- Artificial Authentic
- Machine Perspective
- Cut That Fishernet
- Tools Use Tools
- Loose Tools
- Seven Months
- Paymig
- Borrow Signs
- New Definitions
- New Life Always Announces Itself Through Sound
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Added on: October 29, 2020