Introducing a fully-loaded conceptual and stylistic example of the direction in which modern music and art have inevitably been heading. Hybrid Collapse is an experimental AI-generated music and visual art project, noting tens of thousands of monthly listeners, and Biopolitics is a striking and severe collection of modern reflections and artistic outbursts. The album is essentially committed to a sense of digital violence and escapism, with hints of influence scattered amidst the likes of glitch, IDM, darkwave, and alternative pop.
Self-defined as both critique and seduction, Biopolitics begins with the quietly haunting whispers and juxtaposed distortion of Black Energy, presenting a degree of intimacy and vastness carefully intertwined, as we’re faced with poetic images and ideas not quite grounded in the realness of human thought, but elevated by essential twists of abstract familiarity and rhyming patterns.
As we move into Digital Matrix, the underlying inspiration for the project resounds – ‘I fear technology becoming parody of my own personality’ rings loud from a surprisingly minimalist arrangement, before we rise up into a boldly cinematic crescendo of gripping design and depth.
It’s a fascinating journey, an impressively well-rooted conceptual progression, and with fifteen tracks in full, Biopolitics is a powerful as it is vast and varied.
Highlights include the warmer piano-led tones and melodies of Dark City, the euphoric synth-wave EDM presence of All Light Of The Universe, the mysterious intrigue and original lyricism of Stateliness, and the unexpectedly catchy, dark yet musically uplifting Online Subconscious.
In reality, however, there are so many unsettling references and ideas, so many unique creative redirections, that the album Biopolitics in full is one that naturally urges you to listen more than a few times over – to contemplate each intention and moment, particularly in light of the true changing landscape of modern music.
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