Mother Cyborg by Ara Howrani For Diana Nucera, a.k.a Mother Cyborg, it's been a long time coming. Her long-awaited debut album Pressure Systems drops this week, and based on the two teaser singles "Earth Dreams" and "3souled Women" we are all wildly ill prepared (but so ready) for the journey. Cerebral and enlightened, Nucera gifts us with an odyssey via invisible waves of transmission. "Earth Dreams" is, in many ways, an out-of-body experience as Mother Cyborg poses question after question after existential observation; "What will you do/With the information you've found/When you realize what you've been/what've you've seen/and how you've lived your life thus far?" The percussive synths trip and tumble, mimicking the dance of electricity across wires. The droning key buried in the background could easily be the sound of the mothership approaching. Nucera's digital fortress is lush, refined, and made all the more omnipotent with her breathy, foreground vocals and sonic exoskeleton. "3souled Women" is a different beast, entirely. Though still maintaining an atmospheric awareness, Mother Cyborg races here, an unassuming ode to light speed. More erratic than the serene dazzle of "Earth Dreams," "3souled Women" mimics the sizzle of wires being clipped and fused while administering an intravenous dose of whatever mythical drug makes Earth more easily inhabitable to an extraterrestrial. "Could I pass as your human?" she challenges. "Would you take advantage?/Make your life worth more than mine?" Mother Cyborg does not ask for validation or for permission. Instead, she consistently presents us with a warning disguised as a question for which there is no clear answer. And for that, Mother Cyborg is perhaps more human than the rest of us. Mother Cyborg plays her album release party at Detroit's El Club on 4/29 at 8pm.

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