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AI music is objectively good and getting even better and that's a good thing for me as a music consumer. (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by Iconoclast@feddit.uk to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I have a very pragmatic view on music: all I care about is whether it sounds good or not. That's it. That's literally it. And from that standpoint the advent of AI music has been a major net positive for me.

You can choose to ignore that and come tell me about the ethics of using AI or how you care about the story behind the song and so on and that's all fine but just note that you're no longer addressing what I'm actually saying here.

I'm also not claiming it's great - only that it's good. I've yet to discover an AI song that I go back to like I do with many human-made songs but if I want to put on a playlist playing in the background then one consisting of entirely AI-made music reliably provides me well above average track after another whereas with organic music I need to sift through a ton of absolute crap to stumble upon the occasional good track that still rarely exceeds what AI is able to output. I can go on YouTube and put on a 2 hour playlist of Jazz House or similar and I don't get the urge to skip a single track.

Currently I feel like where AI still trips is lyrics - they still are only plausible sounding nonsense once you actually start paying attention to it but especially for instrumental music it has far exceeded the level of a good average human artist.

Few examples of what I'm refering to: with vocals and without.

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[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

Maribou State reminds me of Blonde Redhead. If you want to give them a try, don't start with Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (which is popular thanks to the track "For the Damaged Coda" becoming a meme. I do like it a lot but it's probably too indie rock for your tastes), try 23 or Sit Down for Dinner. (The production style on the album reminds me of In Rainbows by Radiohead but 1. you've probably tried that already 2. the music writing style is very different)

I had a hard time pinning down Bonobo because my goodness there's so much variety in what he makes (IMO). What sides of his music are you most fond of?

Parov Stelar is electro-swing. I don't know much about it since it's not a genre I'm fond of … Apparently the usual recommendation is Caravan Palace.

Seven Beats seems like shoegaze without guitar. I could be very wrong about this. Try perhaps Cigarettes After Sex?

Here's some stretches that are somewhat adjacent to these genres but I'm only including because I really like them instead of because they're similar to what you listen to. Ordered from slightly more likely to much less likely, I'll put what it's tangentially adjacent to (in parentheses):

"Ambushed" and "Close" by Télépopmusik
(Emancipator) "Write Back" by KidTokio
(Nigel Stanford) "Reapers" by Muse
(Nigel Stanford) "Well Met/Fingers Through The Fence" by Squid
(Nigel Stanford) "Firefly" by Jim Yosef