"For a lot of people, computers and phones provide a central hub to find not just connection, but meaning, comfort, and thrills. Countless artists have dealt with this in a broad way over the decades-think Magdalena Bay's Imaginal Disk, a hero's journey from tech-addled nihilism through to human feeling, but also Kraftwerk's seminal 1981 record Computer World, a still-prescient exploration of what happens to a tech-reliant society-but fewer have explored the connection that, I, and perhaps you, have on an individual level with our devices."
"Enter 26-year-old Nina Wilson, aka Ninajirachi. She wants to fuck her computer. Kind of. A track on her excellent, aggressively stimulating debut album I Love My Computer is called "Fuck My Computer," and it's kind of a joke, unless it isn't? "I wanna fuck my computer/'Cause no one in the world knows me better," she deadpans. "It says my name, it says, 'Nina'/And no one in the world does it better.""
""Fuck My Computer" is an assaultive dubstep rager that yearns for the days when you could download Adventure Club remixes for free from Hype Machine, and it arrives early enough into I Love My Computer that you can play it off, on first listen, as irony. But it quickly becomes clear that Wilson, who grew up in Kincumber, a regional town in New South Wales, is playing her album's con"
Nina Wilson, 26, records as Ninajirachi and grew up in Kincumber, New South Wales. I Love My Computer is her debut album and moves through EDM, tech-house, speed garage, dubstep, and hyperpop. The album frames devices as sites of longing, identity, and comfort, blending deadpan humor with visceral production. The track "Fuck My Computer" pairs an assaultive dubstep sound with lyrics that blur desire and digital intimacy. References to early internet culture and lineage from artists like Magdalena Bay and Kraftwerk appear alongside Wilson's distinctly Australian, aggressively stimulating sonic approach.
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