Pioneering avant-garde electronic musician and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with another mind-boggling mix of synths, samples, chamber music, prog, pop and more, playfully entwined with AI-induced effects, as well as guest guitarist Lee Ranaldo. After the gentle orchestra of opener Elseware, his strange world unfurls more dramatically on the second and title track, a swirl of arpeggios, jagged strings and distorted voices, before the run of World Outside, Krumville and Locrian West immerse us into more extraordinary sounds, including through oddball clicks, whirs, squelching, hammering and plucking, and Lopatin’s vocals. This is where AI and human editor seem to meet in a blur of objectivity and subjectivity, random and planned, but with a startling overal effect. The landscape thereafter becomes mostly more ambient forms of abstraction and strangeness, and with a mixed result, up to Ubiquity Road, but then leading to what is surely the standout and most accessible final track, A Barely Lit Path. Mesmeric, otherworldly and a glimpse, surely, of how music will continue to evolve in the AI era. Out on Warp Records.
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