“Funny Things” by DeFi Rock Band is a song about the love of a city garbage man for an artificially intelligent cyborg girl. Which could be merely gimmicky but there’s something charming about how the song’s driving, grunge-y guitar riff with the steady percussion carries the intentionally gritty lead male vocals and the processed voice of the cyborg as they harmonize in the most unconventional way you’re likely to hear in a song for awhile. Little pulses of synth accent the song all the while and the melody is reminiscent of something out of early punk as influenced by 1960s girl groups. It shouldn’t work, or it should fall apart at some point but just like a near future of decayed civilization and a hodgepodge of technology and street level existence that is going to be there no matter what the tech bros in their pampered and fragile towers of privilege insist is the manifestation of their detached dreams of posthuman existence. Listen to “Funny Things” on Spotify and follow DeFi Rock Band from Barcelona, Spain at the links below.
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