Album Rating: 3.5

Even without knowing about the gimmick, I'd probably like it just because it gives me "Laurie Anderson but modern" vibes

Album Rating: 3.5

her famous song "O Superman (For Massenet)" especially

Album Rating: 2.5

listening now

i expect a third middling review

Album Rating: 2.5

dont worry Im not gonna touch this one with my many words

Album Rating: 3.5

Fuck, Sowing just 2'd this



What if the staff review is a 2, that'd be controversial as fuck

Album Rating: 2.5

I hate preeemptively "rating" things in my head but this is not faring well so far. not sure what y'all are seeing

Album Rating: 3.5

I like the 2nd half more than the first and idk It's got the "weird electronic tribal drum + weird voices" thing in it that works

plane - i think you'll dig this, seems like it's up your alley.

robertsona - ah damn. i think i'm 0 for 3 lately with my recs to you :P

to everyone complaining that i placed too strong an emphasis on the ai: i love this album. before i had a true understanding of what she was doing here, i connected with the actual music. i focused on the ai a lot in the review because i think it's fascinating, and because it's great to see artists like her pushing the envelope on what music can be. in interviews she's given it's clear that this is very near and dear to her heart, and i preferred to engage with that.

starting to think potsy’s 3 is more right than the 5s

Album Rating: 2.0

Love the concept hated the execution

Hate the concept, feel ambivalent about the execution haha

Also O Superman is vastly superior to anything here

Also also @sinternet perhaps that would alter my perspective, I've liked her past material much more than this, but I think even I personally find the idea of academia breaching musical form irksome in general. A cold and clinical way to create something that for me is supposed to be emotive and human

kinda hated this
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Damn

Ye

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't see why academia is so icky to people. It's a social/knowledge structure in the same way that bringing any similar structure to music reframes the context.



Think religion, cultural heritage ect. Just because it's a rarely used one when it comes to artistic creation doesn't mean it doesn't have merit, just that it might be a bit jarring



But then I am in academia so that might have an impact on my thinking

It's not that academia is "icky", and it's not even that looking at music through an academic lens is "icky", (psych of music was one of the funnest electives I ever took when i was in college) it's that the idea of approaching music via science feels counterintuitive.

Its subjective anyways, not everyone puts the emotive qualities of music on a pedestal as I do, but for me its crucial to my enjoyment. There are tonnes of nerds out there that just want to hear some btbam tech shreds and couldnt care less about emotional depth for instance.