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Jacob Kastrenakes
The new Caribou album is filled with AI vocal effects.
Some turned out great, but others highlight just how messy this technology is, according to Pitchfork. From Shaad D’Souza’s review:
AI is simply another tool that will sometimes be used badly and sometimes be used well, and on Honey I think it’s used well—to complicate and expand the abilities of an artist well into his career, whose creative impulses can no longer be entirely satiated through the means previously available to him. There is one exception: The rap verse on “Campfire” is also Snaith, and it edges toward racial ambiguity in a way that feels queasy. At best, it’s a misguided experiment; at worst, outright minstrelsy.
Caribou: Honey
[Pitchfork]