Dotsong combines contrasting musical elements—regal strings, Animal Crossing–like squiggles, churning drums, EDM drops, detuned guitars, pained vocals, and insect noises—into a cohesive, impulsive burst of sound. The result feels triumphant yet anxious, simultaneously chaotic and intentionally bound by raw intuition. The contemporary online "indie" scene described is rooted in the rap underground and SoundCloud collectives, characterized by beatmaker techniques, slowed instrumental variants, and spamming sound effects. The music often skews emo with aggressive dramatics. A recent trend of depressive, droning looped guitar songs has emerged, with newcomers compared to figures like jaydes and wifiskeleton, the latter tied to allegations and a suspected overdose.
ayowitty and bunii's "dotsong" hits like a flashbang of textural excess: regal strings, K.K. Slider squiggles straight out of Animal Crossing, churning drums that could spawn a moshpit. There's no time to get your bearings; an EDM drop smashes everything to pieces, then a pained voice croons in the rubble while drunkenly mashing a detuned guitar. Insect noises bring you to rest. None of these things should go together, yet they somehow do, bound by raw intuition and force of will.
ayowitty is a talented upstart in a swarm of artists amorphously referred to as the "indie scene"-not indie like DIY shoegazers from Pittsburgh or aspiring popstars who can't get signed because they only have 3,000 monthly listeners. This is "indie" as it's understood by the online rap underground, which could mean a multitude of things: They used to make rap music and suddenly decided to make alt-rock, they're members of SoundCloud collectives, they use beatmaker techniques-like opening and ending songs with slowed versions of the instrumental, or spamming sound effects like ad-libs.
Collection
[
|
...
]