Electro post-proggers deliver seamless immersion on fifth album.
North Atlantic Oscillation have been steadily finessing their combination of post-Kid A nu-prog and modern electronica since their 2010 debut, Grappling Hooks – but here on their fifth album, it sounds like a genuine man-machine singularity has been achieved. It’s sure to become a cliché – if it isn’t already – but there’s definitely a sense of some kind of AI-enhanced mind-meld having taken place during the creation of United Wire. Even the title seems to allude to an active collaboration with the complex networks that our social interactions are increasingly encased inside.
“An album for a world where reality is being reconfigured.” However, that’s not for a moment to take anything away from the flesh-and-blood project or suggest that they’ve got…
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Prog (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 141