Album Review: City Of Clowns by Marie Davidson

With companies like Google and Meta harvesting our data for profit and AI-driven automation threatening job security, tech anxiety is at an all-time high. Inspired by Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Montreal producer Marie Davidson places this unease at the core of her latest album. Opener Validations Weight plays like an infomercial for a dystopian future where our privacy is traded for the illusion of collective enhancement, setting the stage for the relentless techno throb of Demolition, where Davidson's deadpan delivery mirrors AI's indifference: 'I don't want your cash, all I want is you / I want your data!' Elsewhere, Statistical Modelling probes how algorithms manipulate human behavior, while Fun Times explores how tech's constant demands on our attention have eroded our ability to be present in the moment.

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Captures the dark, dystopian terrors of a world driven by power, greed and technology. Yet humanity is here too, dancing its butt off For all electronic music artists technology plays a vital part in their production, but as she approached the release of her sixth album, Marie Davidson had cause for a rethink. An extended period of studying Shoshana Zuboff's book The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism played a big part in her thinking, technology revealed as a double-edged sword.

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Marie Davidson has always defied norms in dance music, with her albums often blending introspective storytelling with diverse sounds. Returning with her latest offering in 'City of Clowns', the artist goes back to her roots of deepened electronic music, fusing her iconic thumping techno, integrated with scathing spoken word delivery, with elements of structured pop and melodic sensibilities. With a multitude of influences, Marie Davidson constructed the album through the rise of the information age, influential social commentators who have been present throughout her life, and her technical advances as a musician.

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