The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara have built “Misantropi” as a direct argument against AI music. Real instruments. Real bodies. No generative tools anywhere on the record, including the only music video they’ve made for it.

The London duo of Daphne Ang from Singapore and Andrea Papi from Italy, working together since early 2020, deliver their fourth studio album on June 12 via 12″ vinyl through tcomas.com. Recording, production, mixing, mastering, artwork: all of it handled by people they could shake hands with. The tagline is “for humans who hate people,” which is also a fair summary of where the band are sitting right n...