Kaktus Einarsson makes Factoid Happiness sound like the algorithm’s nervous breakdown

Kaktus Einarsson’s Factoid Happiness enters the 19 June news cycle with a title that could be printed on the welcome mat of the internet. The Icelandic musician has announced his third solo album, due in September, with guests including John Grant, RAKEL and Jessica Winter. The album reportedly examines how algorithms, social media and political polarisation shape emotional life in an age where misinformation keeps dressing up as certainty. That is a rich subject for art pop because the best version of the genre can turn anxiety into architecture. Factoid Happiness sounds like it will not simply complain about online life, but dramatize the weird pleasure-pain loop of being fed half-truths until your feelings become platform data. Einarsson has the right instincts for this: curious, electronic, theatrical and just Icelandic enough to make the algorithm feel cold.

Source: https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/kaktus-einarsson-recruits-john-grant-rakel-and-jessica-winter-for-third-album-factoid-happiness