Diane Coffee - Internet Arms (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 263.88 Mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps ~ 90.76 Mb | 39:25 | Cover
Indie Pop | Country: USA | Label: Polyvinyl Records - PRC-384
Following two albums of glittery, strutting psych-pop as alter ego Diane Coffee, Foxygen drummer Shaun Fleming dims the spotlights and turns up the fluorescents for the technology-inspired Internet Arms. Still playful and off-center but with a more thoughtful, anxious tone, it embraces synthesizers and electronic drums to reflect themes of alienation in a digital world. (It's his first album to be recorded digitally instead of to tape.) Inspired by the idea of social-media versions of self, the glistening, midtempo "Simulation" contrasts the problem-free life of a facsimile with "a state of vegetation in my personal isolation." Other lyrics carefully consider a made-to-order lover. Processed vocals in various states of mechanical distortion give the impressions that the narrator, too, is at one with the machines.