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Are You There God? It's Me, @ - Lavender Recycled Vinyl LP
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11/08/2024
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Limited to 200 copies
Lavender Recycled Vinyl. Limited to 200 copies. Catalog Number: VMP1101LP Color: Purple Format: LP UPC: 677517017342 Are You There God? It's Me, @ is @'s foray into electronic music -- consisting primarily of software instrumentation (with the occasional flute, guitar or bass part sprinkled in). The band's experience producing in this style was minimal, but they found the new process to be a rewarding exercise allowing them to explore new textures and structures made possible by computer music. Where their previous acoustic recordings had a looser and more human feel, these new songs allowed them to experiment with autotune and quantized beats. Rose was able to resurrect her passion for classical choir by singing and recording a capella vocal arrangements to be incorporated into Filipczak's instrumentals. "Webcrawler," named after the pioneering search engine, might be considered Are You There God?'s epic. @ sees their search for meaning in life akin to how search engines pull together data from all over the internet to find answers. The music itself is even reminiscent of dial-up internet connection, with droning keys and machine-like drum programming until overheating and erupting into chaos, in the form of heavy-metal shredding, only to cool down again back on a loading screen.