It’s far too easy to denounce change, and in an epoch of engineered intuition and apps that offer imitations of forest sounds for $1.99, lamenting the fallen, essential past may, at first, feel the most natural. But as commercial spirit reminds us, diatribes are worse than barren—they’re unimaginative.
“Former Future Beings,” a track released from MJ Guider—solo experimental artist turned trio—is an ode imbued with the urbanization transforming the world and in specific, New Orleans’ own changing topography. As part of her newest album, Precious Systems, “Former Future Beings” is self-effacing and streaked with awe—a gossamer unwinding in the metropolis. The track is a heavy murmur—contained in its own rite, but expansive all the same. Housed under a powerful bass, shards of unavoidable industry don’t distract from it’s buzzing focal—an aching humanity that continues on.
Precious Systems is slated for release July 15, 2016, off of Kranky.
