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On the dark side of Daft Punk’s vocorder lies onlyone – a mostly-solo effort from local robot sympathizer Joe Kowalski. “Breakable” has dreamy eyes but no discernable soul behind them, only a motherboard crammed with zeroes and ones that doesn’t fuck around with Pharrell and his brainworming choruses. Kowalski’s strict adherence to sci-fi synths (“Fixable”) and buzzing musical short-circuits (“Vacuum”) lets us know that the singularity is approaching, and everything organic will be enslaved.
