Jaydi Zavala provides unique vocals to an incredibly unique story and musical set-up – Noir Pixel explores the impact of AI on the human experience, with the compelling organic sounds and lyrical venture of Wifi Pangea.
Emerging complete with a professional set of visuals that captivate beautifully, Wifi Pangea is a fascinating take, with a strangely alluring and impressively original melody and story.
The arrangement is genuine, live drums, guitars and vocals all laid down as a solo effort from Noir Pixel, and the story is unsettling, complex, the visuals presenting the journey of a woman escaping the cityscape for the desolate desert – a fitting representation of the lyrical contemplation of escaping the digital world for the call of nature.
Brilliantly interesting, a kind of relentless outpouring of lyrics but with a vocal delicacy and revealing details that keep you coming back, and of course, the essential and satisfying resolve of a concluding hook to wrap things up.
As part of the Random Forest EP, Wifi Pangea marks a memorable introduction. The project is boldly eclectic, beginning with a distorted rock set-up for the title-track, and featuring a handful of vocalists to help really bring the stories and sentiments to life.
Any one of these tracks could in fact introduce the project well, but Wifi Pangea seems to hold a certain topical poignancy right now, and that conceptual appeal, in line with the stylistically indie-pop familiarity, helps really bridge the gap.
For Random Forest we get a heavy blues-rock anthem of gritty and soulful intensity and groove. Then with Fully on-Site, Noir Pixel adopts a more atmospheric design, with the live tumble of drums countering gentle vocals and ambient intricacies, for an hypnotic trip-hop experience that’s again completely unlike the other tracks on the project.
We also get a dose of hip hop from JuztKP, on Preferential Attachment – a retro keys, bass and synth set-up adding a sultry groove to impressively distinct vocals, and lyrical musings that are supremely enthralling as ever. This one, like Wifi Pangea, is easily worth two or three listens in a row, to truly take on each reference and idea.
Jaydi Zavala then features once more, for the closing and colourful Doot Again. Organic and electronic worlds collide one last time, to bring Random Forest to an aptly enchanting and musically engaging finish.
Noir Pixel is a name worth knowing about right now. An elusive but talented and inventive musician, with a unique background, and a clearly uninhibited approach to expressive, purposeful creativity.
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