Slippers' 'Slippers 08' Offers a Refreshingly Simple Escape from Technological Overload
By
Margaret Farrell
Pure flour-power. Hearty enough to carry you through lunch.
Summary
A review of Slippers 08, the sophomore album by LA-based musician Madeline Babuka Black (Slippers). The article uses the album as a lens to reflect on how technology and culture gravitate toward unnecessary complication, contrasting that with the album's refreshing simplicity and directness. The review explores how the album offers an alternative to the overwhelming complexity of modern life.
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Everything seems to gravitate toward complication: centuries later, the tin-can telephone has become the iPhone, the sundial a smartwatch, and glasses polarized, self-recording spyware.
We're always straining toward the future, which can create the impression that systems must grow more convoluted to become more sophisticated.
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