New album: The Cong || Bally Broads

How the synergy of craft and technology leads to a unique sound

Eight months have passed since we introduced you to The Cong, the anonymous trio of musicians—disguised as monkeys—who dare to admit that they use AI as a tool for time travel experimentation (this is the short summary of the extensive explanation of their creative process that I got first hand: the composition, structure, chords and lyrics are all organic, then filtered through AI systems to sound more like the era and genres they want to sound like, then re-edited, re-mixed and mastered—it’s basically a big hybrid that takes a lot of work). In the meantime they’ve shared 19 other releases—76 songs, if I counted correctly—that are interesting, exuberant and versatile to say the least, which certainly also applies to the video arena they’ve moved into.

Enough reasons to turn the spotlight on last month’s Bally Broads LP, where Jungle Jim, Ursus and Bubbles perform psychedelic and progressive rock in an imaginary circus from bygone times. Whatever you think of the underlying method, the result is idiosyncratic, original and colorful, an entertaining listen full of crazy surprises.



Bally Broads is out digitally and on 12″ vinyl through Slimecore.

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