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The cyborg from Alex Garland’s sci-fi cult film Ex-Machina served as inspiration for this record, explains Miss Grit aka Margaret Sohn, as did other clever artificial intelligence films such as Spike Jonze’s Her. The New York-based, non-binary musician is half Korean and, like the cyborg she invented, feels that she doesn’t really belong to any world. Given this input and song titles like “Buffering” or “Syncing” one imagines Sohn’s debut FOLLOW THE CYBORG as a futuristic concept album full of wildly beeping synthesizers, but the opposite is the case.
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Rather, Sohn enjoys living out common indie clichés, such as the quiet verse that has been common since the Pixies.
Loud chorus effect, she decorates cranked guitars with wide-walled electronic snippets and is not ashamed of euphoric melody moments. Sometimes, like in the title track, perfect indie-pop pearls emerge, other times, like in “Lain (Phone Clone)”, the result is feel-good music suitable for bumper cars. Oh, if only she had fed the chip of her man-machine with more power plants and less Katy Perry.
The album ends after ten songs, between singer/songwriter and stadium, indie rock and yippieyeah arrangements, journeys into one’s own psyche and reflections on AI. However, it is unlikely that androids will dream up this album instead of electric sheep.
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