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Song You Need: Mumdance loses the reins on "Artificial Intelligence"
What initially introduced me to Mumdance were his grime instrumentals. His collaborations with Novelist -- songs like "Take Time" and "1 Sec" -- placed the punishing buzz and pings of Boy In Da Corner in a cavernous negative space that the foreboding atmosphere diffused into. The English producer's continued to demonstrate his compositional clarity with projects like the 2015 Logos collaboration Different Circles, which brought his beats into the avant-garde, and the shoegaze-drone LP Bliss Signal, an album created with WIFE and released in 2019. Throughout it all, Mumdance has always sounded in control. But on his new song, "Artificial Intelligence," he feels more like a vessel for some kind of demonic pirate rave entity than its conductor.