Artificial Intelligence And Artificial Paradise - Blessed and blushing
Released 10/11/2023
Reviewer Riley Sanchez 

Here is the texture of sidewalk. The continuous feeling beneath your feet is ubiquitous, unmistakable; you wouldn’t be remiss to have never consciously considered it — it must be familiar, even if unacknowledged in your memory. Mixed with the cement that tickles tough at your toes are the convivial, unplaceable songs you’ve certainly heard and never named wafting out through the open doors of apparel stores. This must be what makes the language spoken so unintelligible. With Artificial Intelligence And Artificial Paradise, Blessed and Blushing manage to manufacture this memory, the busy flat life of an outdoor mall. And if you detect a feeling of nostalgia, you are exactly algorithmically attuned: these are admittedly AI generated for that sentimentality. This might also account for all the uncanny details that fill these three short moments. If every track is named for the feeling it immediately evokes — each song seeming to begin as if it were already playing, here is the ever present now so immanent in nostalgia — there is always something slightly off in its reiteration: what is that whisper-like plosive in “Wandering Around In The City Of Love” or that more-texture-than-sound aspect that sits at the top of the mix in “I Must Scream But I Have Neighbors”? Just off from comfortable, too digital to be real. Maybe this accounts for the doom that punches through this EP’s final track: cavernous 808’s hint at the hollowness of the ground you should recall beneath your feet, every stutter step one detects before the melody picks up again might be a crack you catch your toe on. Ultimately, this is a paradise too recollected to be our own. 
 

The Spirit: **
Branding: ***.5
The Music:  **.5