Delay Grounds - Digital Spiritual (2024)

Delay Grounds is set to release his debut album, Digital Spiritual, on Global Warming Records. This highly anticipated project promises to captivate the underground electronic music scene with a relatable and forward thinking concept.

Digital Spiritual is a bold journey into the essence of identity in the digital age. Delay Grounds uses an eclectic array of sounds, sourced from months of social media audio and personal music archives dating back to his childhood. The result is a complex and vibrant tapestry that questions and celebrates the notion of self in a world increasingly dominated by technology.

Central to the album’s creation are the inventive AI production techniques employed by Delay Grounds. The album features isolated vocals from unreleased tracks, manipulated through a “MIDI Soul Imprint” that converts key melodies from his musical past into new, AI-generated content. The track "Everything I Ever Made" is a masterful collage of all his unreleased material, while "Algo Selfie" ingeniously converts spectrograms of his own face into a droning bass line.

The album’s visual counterpart, created in collaboration with artist W.W. Irving, further blurs the lines between the digital and the physical. The AI-generated cover art merges every photo of Delay Grounds on the internet with 500 selfies, resulting in the ultimate “Algorithm Selfie” designed to exploit social media’s facial recognition algorithms for maximum exposure.

Digital Spiritual is an introspective dialogue between the physical, digital, and metaphysical realms. It invites listeners to connect, befriend, and transcend the superficiality of digital interactions. With influences ranging from left-leaning club music to IDM, and artists like Animal Collective, Clark, and Broadcast, Delay Grounds crafts an emotionally complex, intellectually stimulating experience that is as thought-provoking as it is danceable.