Leave it to electronica acts Blanck Mass and Mouse on Mars to offer speculative works on artificial intelligence, cyborgs and the future of humanity. Benjamin John Power, half of dance duo Fuck Buttons, records solo as Blanck Mass. His fifth release,
In Ferneaux (Sacred Bones), consists of two 20-minute pieces, âPhase Iâ and âPhase II,â that float from the type of naturalist found sounds favored by jazz artist Jeph Jerman, to wild electronic swooshes, to an apocalypse rant from a drunk San Francisco street prophet. But where his
Animated Violence Mild was a tirade on the police state, this is a sad bemused instrumental sermon addressing life after pandemic.