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Can a Neural Network Write Criticism?

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The Final Cut's new album Process was recorded in two places: a cavernous music studio in Berlin, and a Brooklyn dining hall during an immersive culinary experience in which sound was among the items on the menu. "With its swarming, chirping creatures and metallic thuds, it sounds like a cross between a distorted, futuristic version of one of the more patient strains of industrial and drone music," writes a critic for the experimental music magazine Ear Wave Event. Somehow, the anonymous writer claims that the triangulation of Berlin, Brooklyn, and drone music pays homage to Italian culture . Process, if we're to trust the critic, is a messy hodgepodge of instruments, recording processes, and cultural influences. But the Final Cut's album doesn't actually exist.