I continue to grow depressed over the conversation around AI in the music industry. That doesn’t mean I don’t want the discussion to stop, but it’s still discouraging to continually blog more about AI rather than the curious energy that human beings put into making art. Which is why the latest track from Brighton-based emo-shoegazers Glasshouse Red Spider Mite is timely, bridging the conversation around technological existentialism and their striking grungy instincts.
Today, they return with the single “Hell 1000,” their first new music since releasing their debut EP What Do You Mean The Monster?… Hahaha in May 2025. Over gnarled guitar and persistent drums, bassist Alex Turner sings about the doomed binding between human and machine: “I shouldn’t be marrying new machines / They do my thinking, clean my meaning.”
In a press release, Turner shared that “Hell 1000 examines a burgeoning new relationship. How the fall of man gives rise to machine. A glimpse into how our emotions and achievements will mean nothing in the world we give to AI. How the world’s elite run the media we consume whilst playing peekaboo, as they avoid responsibility for the inevitable mess they’re creating.”
Check it out below.
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