Headphones separate us from music enough before AutoTune even comes in.
, released in the fall on Apple TV+, the Modern Lovers’ Jonathan Richman recalls watching the band live and hearing overtones that had no source, that seemed to rise from the sum total of every instrument being played onstage at once. He called the phenomenon “In most of the music that has compelled me the most this past year, I hear voices that denature, voices that shudder and fracture, voices that sound as if they’ve issued from nowhere.
In a destabilized year, a year marked by technologically mediated sociality and ubiquitous grief and fear like static buzzing at the bone, these voices have been like guides. They reflect the churn, as you put it, Carl, highlighting the strangeness of the arrangements and rituals that were so quickly normalized as preventive measures. They have gestured toward persistent feelings of dislocation, a sense of lapse from time and space. They help me through feelings I struggle to place.
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