“It’s credit to Holly Herndon’s skill as a musical guide that her third album, though up to its elbows in complex ideas, feels so invigorating. Her boldest attempt yet to reconfigure modern dilemmas musical, technological and philosophical, it looks back, finding inspiration in the church choirs of her youth, and leaps forward, with a self-designed “AI baby” called Spawn – no android overlord, but ”
“Created with a choral ensemble and a nascent AI, the Berlin-based electronic musician’s third album is a meditation on community, technology, and the future of, and beyond, the human species.”
“Holly Herndon's PROTO faces the future with loving grace”
“Type “Will A.I. replace?” into Google and its own complex set of code will auto populate a list of suggestions from doctors to teachers, lawyers to humans. “Musicians” doesn’t make the top ten but with artificial intelligence increasingly infiltrating the way music is made, it’s becoming an increasingly valid question. For many it’s a frightening prospect; a dehumanization of something inherently”
“Holly Herndon’s new album is partially aided by A.I. and features some creative, futuristic art pop pieces—but there are plenty of half-baked experiments as well. Results are mixed.”
