'I'm sure they'd still have that sense of wonder'
Artists: Zammuto
Album: Veryone
Tags: experimental | experimental pop | electronic | lo-fi | art pop
Added on: Fri Mar 27 2026
"My Dog's Eyes" by Zammuto is another song that I could very easily run on loop many times in a row (and have). The way the computerized voice runs across the tones and timing of the underlying beat and piano line is just entrancing. A little after two minutes in they use the phrase "A fast train rushing" and screw down the beat while the voice also slows. Somehow the result exactly evokes the feeling of watching a train slow down in front of you.
It's the sort of song that I didn't really like the first time I heard it but enjoyed more and more as I listened to it. More importantly, I kept thinking about it. The effect is both electronic and shamanistic and I enjoy how it feels to have these phrases repeated at me in a way and methodology that shouldn't be musical, yet somehow only becomes more musical the more you hear it, with the phrases eventually blending perfectly and becoming their own strange but beautiful instrument.
I think it is truly wild what music we can make with the tools that computers give us that still feel incredibly human, reflecting some deep unalienable thing within us that, like in this case, make "water being cut at the bow of a boat" repeated over and over with the right tone and music perfectly create the picture of that very thing in one's head.
It is insane to me to read about the shitty AI music people are making, there are all these wonderful tools on our computer that could make amazing music even without ever having to learn an instrument or even sing. Tools that can maintain every inch of our humanity focused through the music. But people would choose to leverage a weird soulless imitator?
I stumbled on AI music on Spotify for the first time (I think) yesterday and as I was listening to it, I was wondering "is this AI music?" and sure enough AI music, AI singer, AI all the way down. There is this entire layer of creativity and ... wonder that is lost when you tell a machine a few sentences and just take whatever slop it spits back. I'm sure there are some uses for AI in music that do make sense, but giving away your entire creative process to poke at a glob you have no real control over? That just isn't it.
I love this song because it is so simple and yet it leverages that simplicity to connect with our humanity, and so much of it comes from the use of these computerized sounds and voices.
"There are the children who have not yet lost their sense of wonder"
Indeed.
Another really great song along these lines from the same album and artist.