This AI band has released 40 albums in 30 days

Talk about AI slop.

If you’re following the whole AI-and-music situation, you’ve heard of The Velvet Sundown, a totally fake band produced using Suno AI and somehow spearheaded by a guy named Andrew Frelon. He has a new project called Sutem Min, a collective based out of Montreal.

Using Suno AI, the band’s debut features forty (40) albums released over 30 days. And get this: It was developed in cooperation with a major label. Which one? We don’t know.

Sutem Min can apparently skirt all the AI music rules put in place by Spotify by listing an artist bio that describes the group as a bunch of human musicians and doesn’t mention anything about AI.

What’s being released?

• 40 full-length albums that were created in a month. That’s 520 songs.
• There will a “live” album.
• Alexa devices may react “unusually.” (I don’t know what that means.”
• The genre? “World music with global cross-cultural influences.”

Here’s what Frelon had to say for himself.

“I wanted to answer the question of what it would feel like if your favorite band put out a new album every day, and to be able to tumble down the rabbit hole into their musical universe...With Sutem Min, I tried to simulate decades of a band’s artistic development in just a few weeks. How would their voice, vision, and line-up change and grow over time, like a real band’s?…Music used to be something that brought people together. With AI-generated music, there’s the risk of a new kind of private psychosis—an endless stream of songs made only for you.”

This is a solution to a problem no one has. No one has ever said, “Gee, I need more music made by a computer program. Besides, we need to put more struggling musicians out of work in favour of soulless, inspiration-less AI slop.” Well, at least one major has. This is perfect! No more dealing with temperamental creative types.

Here’s a sample. Listen and never go back again.