London music
fromPitchfork
2 weeks agoOrgan Tapes: (Yi Bao Yan)
Tim Zha uses Auto-Tune and lo-fi textures to fuse human subjectivity with machine systems, blending guitar songwriting, heartland twang, and processed vocals.
"I just make stuff until it sounds right," said Norwegian experimental musician Gaute Granli in a 2021 interview, when asked about his creative intentions. His answer is both evasive-what would it mean, when crafting deliberately confrontational art, to release something you think sounds wrong?-and an accurate description of a practice shaped by enigmatic instincts. Granli's curious new album Rosacea has a nebulous atmosphere all its own.