Spryk Imagines Machines' Dreams Of Human Experience With Club-Ready EP 'Afterglow'

Mumbai musician and multi-media artist Tejas Nair aka Spryk just released his new EP 'Afterglow', his first in nearly 4 years since 2020's 'Apex'.

Continuing to explore topics related to technology and humanity in his music, Tejas explains: "With 'Afterglow', I set out to explore the intersection of human emotion and artificial intelligence, imagining a world where machines dream of human history and our shared stories."

While most artists would approach a topic like this with a sense of dystopia, Spryk's vision of intelligent machines is jubilant – creating upbeat melodies with idiosyncratic synth tones, mixing organic soundscapes with mechanical precision sometimes, other times mixing stiff mechanical tones with looser rhythms and presenting pitches vocal samples like a machine's emulation of a singing human voice.

However, no concept is absolutely necessary to enjoy the album as the contrasts work to create a colourful club-friendly work that flows from dubstep's zaniness to techno's rhythms on 'Enigma' before entering the four-to-the-floor territory fully on 'Rise & Fall'. It mixes the melodic sense of one style with the engulfing rhythms of the other throughout the EP. Just as the richness starts to become unsurprising with the cinematic emotional drama of 'Synbio' working against the fun that defines the EP, 'Afterglow' relents to voice samples and a gentle but profound parting note of 'Arches'.

Listen to 'Afterglow' below and follow Spryk for more information.

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