
It’d be easy to begin with a joke about AI writing it, but Prog is too classy for such an open goal. And indeed Mariusz Duda’s instrumental album is, he’s said, not intended to confirm society’s much-voiced fears about the growth surge of artificial intelligence in recent times.
Although the title AFR AI D – or specifically its typography – rings of “wake up, sheeple” bumptiousness, he eschews the obvious route and, overall, embraces the idea of new tools and “the future.” At least he does in his accompanying statements.