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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Jared Richards

Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer review – a surprisingly moving tribute to 2010s EDM

‘It sounds like the giddiness of adolescent discovery’ … Ninajirachi’s I Love My Computer.
‘It sounds like the giddiness of adolescent discovery’ … Ninajirachi’s I Love My Computer. Photograph: Passive Kneeling

In case the title of Ninajirachi’s debut album didn’t make it clear, the Australian producer spells out her love for all things electronica on its turbo third track: “I wanna fuck my computer / Cuz no one in the world knows me better.”

A glitched-out cacophony of bleeps, mechanical spirals and sirens, the track – titled, descriptively, Fuck My Computer – is a firework display of raw energy and excitement. That freneticism rarely lets up across I Love My Computer, an immensely fun and inventive dance album that doubles as a surprisingly touching coming-of-age story from one of Australia’s minted electronic exports.

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