The past year has been a real “what the fuck” era in the music industry: Grimes has a baby with Elon Musk that they named X Æ A-12; Ariel Pink is a QAnon guy; Taylor Swift released two “indie” albums. Now an unborn baby made an album, aptly titled Sounds Of The Unborn. We’ve truly seen it all.
The baby’s name is Luca Yupanqui and her album’s set to come out on April 2 via Sacred Bones Records. You might be wondering how the hell this baby has an album already and why it’s on Sacred Bones, a label that also reps for the likes of Amen Dunes, Marissa Nadler, Zola Jesus, and David freakin’ Lynch. Well, her mom’s Psychic Ills bassist Elizabeth Hart, so that should give you an idea of what the album sounds like, too.
According to Consequence of Sound, the album was made using biosonic MIDI technology that “translated her in-utero movements into sound.” The MIDI device recorded the vibrations made by Yupanqui in the womb, sending them to her dad Iván Diaz Mathé’s synthesizers.
So what does an unborn baby’s music sound like? Mostly like the score for a cyberspace horror film. The lead single “V4.3 pt. 2" is out now, so you can check it out. And if you’re feeling inspired to have your own industry plant musical prodigy, Sacred Bones is selling the MIDI Biodata Sonification System.
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I’m sure if I sent my farts through enough computer processing I could make them sound magical.
Which is why I keep telling you to shove this mic up your ass so we can be rock stars!
Shoving an Irishman up his ass will make him a rock star? Is this Bono in particular, or will any Irishman suffice?
Wait, only has to do the mic?!!!? Da fuq yo? You wanna explain to me why I look like I’m wearing a flesh tutu because you said I was playing drums? You know how hard it is to contort your colon to accommodate cymbals?You, sir, suck, and I’m going to the doctor now.
Sir, while that sounds most distressing, please note, as I have said several times since you walked in, this is an Arby’s.
I KNOW this is an Arby’s!!! Where else am I gonna find food greasy enough to grease my lower GI tract while simultaneously making me want to shit uncontrollably? Now get your ass back there and get me more curly fries and “chicken” sliders!
Judging by the description, the fetus was the musical instrument, not the artist.
she’s really shredding on that fetus
And at the end of the show she smashes it to pieces and throws parts of it into the audience!
Yupanqui’s second release Birth Sounds will be 90 minutes of her mother screaming in agony, with one track at the end of Lupa crying.The AV Club will name it album of the year.
Really I thought it would be 90 minutes based on biosonic Midi tech
that “translated her bowel movements into sound.”
Only if it has that sweet Laural Canyon sound!
Beat me to it by mere minutes, Nilus. DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!Ahem, I mean . . . well done.
You mean it’ll be the “Breakout Album of the Year.”
I heard the conception album was released in under a minute.
It’s not an album until it’s been released. On this issue there’s no debate.
… lol those names. That’s no pressure at aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall.(Luca and Yupanqui are blatant references to two of Argentina’s most important musicians of the 20th Century.)
This is Astor Piazzolla erasure!
Looking forward to the tour.
So did you just take all this “unborn” language straight from the talking points of anti-choicers?
I’d think the difference maker would be whether you’re talking about a pregnant woman who wants a baby or one who doesn’t. The former would be glad to talk about “the baby this, the baby that” (and hence, at present, the unborn baby), while the latter would not.
This is really just a stealth teaser for a new season of Portlandia, right?
music by fetus, lyrics by spinach
My sperm sounds better than that crap.
Two things. One, that explains the dripping sound in your ASMR vids. Two, of course it sounds like shit. The colon is, like, right there…
If I had been the father she’d have a semicolon; release the kraken on that ass.
I would be much more interested in a documentary of the pre-production process of this album.
Is there any credible artistic take on this other than “staggeringly self-indulgent”?
It isn’t self-indulgent, it’s nepotism! The kid can say she released an album pre-natally and probably Harvard or Yale will accept her for being “interesting” despite low grades and SATs.
Supergroups are so corny. I much preferred the solo work of the sperm and the egg.
Sperm Egg Tequila (S.E.T) new Fetus Core only from Anthem Records…
Grimes has a baby with Elon Musk that they named X AE A-12; Ariel Pink is a QAnon guy; Taylor Swift released two “indie” albums. Now an unborn baby made an album One of these things is not like the others.
new band name: “Fontanelles of Wayne”. Luca’s mom has got it going on.
Mother hopes “the fame doesn’t go to Luca’s head as it’s big enough as it is. “