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Caribou: Honey review – this AI-aided album is dubious on so many levels
Evidently running out of ideas, the Canadian musician has used AI to alter his voice into rappers and singers – a dismally insular style of working that produces little of note
The Musicians’ Union voiced alarm when Wurlitzer organs became appended with a drum machine in 1959, calling it a “stilted and unimaginative performer” – but today, drummers are still in a job while music from rap to techno has blossomed thanks to that very technology. (For a more profound and genuinely collaborative mix of human and algorithm, look to Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s choral work The Call, which opens at London’s Serpentine gallery this week, and which was made with UK community choirs alongside AI.) Not only does opener Broke My Heart boringly approximate PinkPantheress-type UKG, its central melody is a limp tweak to Suzanne Vega’s Tom’s Diner chorus without any of its cleverness or dark symmetry.
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