Lolina - Fast Fashion

More YouTube played backwards hyper-reality from Inga Copeland's Lolina project. The pop culture perversity Copeland first pursued in Hype Williams is amped up higher than ever on Fast Fashion, a pitch-shifted, glitched-out splurge of warped vocal samples and anti-music subversion. The first clue was in the song titles - key sample: Mark Ronson's TED Talk Intro. Copeland's here to push some buttons, and when she does she pushes them all at once. I reckon some might consider this 'post-internet music', but i'd rather think of it as a maddening reflection of the everything-all-the-time maximalism of modern culture relayed into an unbreakable circuit of left/wrong turns. Can't help but feel a little violated experiencing the full 20 minutes of opener Looking For A Charger But Only Works on Batteries, something akin to hearing V/VM TikTok Paris fashion week. Obviously provocative stuff, though for those who hang in there, there's a beautiful pay off in the closing title track, the churning synth and drum machine loop combo harkening back to Copeland's decade-best Because I'm Worth It LP. Music, or art, or however you want to understand it, is better for the presence of Inga Copeland. If your patience is being tested, you know you're on the right track.