Charli xcx<\/a> used an AI\u2011powered plugin on at least one track from her new album Music, Fashion, Film. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Charli xcx has used AI on her latest album<\/p>\n
The Von Dutch singer and her collaborators A. G. Cook and Finn Keane have broken down the making of several songs on the follow\u2011up to Brat, released today (24.07.26), including No One Lasts Forever.<\/p>\n
They worked with an \u201caudio mosaicing\u201d plugin called Concatenator, created by DataMind Audio, who describe their mission as \u201cbuilding an ecosystem of expressive instruments that treats creators as partners, not raw material.\u201d The software analyses large batches of audio and tags each sound by timbre, pitch and amplitude, displaying the results as a visual mosaic. When new audio is fed in, it reconstructs the signal in real time by pulling together micro\u2011fragments from its library that most closely match the incoming sound.<\/p>\n
Cook used Concatenator to turn the \u201cbits and pieces\u201d from his jam session with Keane into a full drum pattern, saying the loop was built from \u201cpretty much all of those files\u201d.<\/p>\n
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On the human side of the process, Charli told the Tape Notes podcast: \u201cThis song has made me change the way I think about my life and my art. That was the journey I was going on while I was writing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nExplaining the technical approach, Cook said: \u201cThe biggest difference compared to so many tracks Finn and I have done together is this is so audio\u2011heavy. There\u2019s pretty much no MIDI. Any MIDI that\u2019s in there is chopping up something we actually recorded or edited. A lot of the guitars, bass, all that, we\u2019re playing it in \u2014 drum kits and drum machines.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nHe added: \u201cWe have all these little sounds throughout the track, all these little bits and pieces. It\u2019s funny because we\u2019re literally running around the studio with as many things plugged in as possible and just doing the worst sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nKeane said they were deliberately \u201ctrying to find the ugliest things\u201d, but ended up creating something \u201ckind of cool with the drums\u201d. He explained that the entire second half of the track uses fragments from their jam session, and that Concatenator was the key tool for bringing those elements to life.<\/p>\n
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