Various Artists PC Music, Vol. 1

PC Music Volume 1 is anti-physical music for an anti-physical time. Like everything that A. G. Cook’s London-based label’s released since 2013, these 10 songs are invocations of the hyperreal, created to meet the anxieties of an age where bodies are rarely written about as sites of joy or authenticity, and more frequently discussed as zones of inequity, violence, embarrassment and pain. The desire to exist as a well-tended garden of pixels fuels many of our culture’s dominant systems: the databases of altered thoughts, distorted images, the avatars that demonstrate reaction or stand in for action. Like all of these networks and products, PC Music answers our desire to escape the burden of physical presence—and in the process ends up sharpening and perpetuating the desire even further.

01 Hannah Diamond: “Every Night”
02 A. G. Cook: “Beautiful”
03 GFOTY: “USA”
04 Danny L Harle: “In My Dreams”
05 Hannah Diamond: “Attachment”
06 Lipgloss Twins: “Wannabe”
07 Thy Slaugher: “Bronze”
08 A. G. Cook: “Keri Baby”
09 GFOTY: “Don’t Wanna/Let’s Do It”
10 easyFun: “Laplander”