Following Hanne Hukkelberg’s return after a five-year-hiatus - and highly comeback innovative single ‘The Whip’ - the highly acclaimed electronic artist continues her immersive study into the digital world we’re all so often and too easily consumed by with ‘IRL’. Speaking of the Internet and social media as “the beast,” the Norwegian musician questions the lines between reality, hyper-reality and fantasy and how it runs parallel to our daily lives. It’s a quirky, misshapen electronic track that features a plethora of found-sound samples which Hukkelberg artfully slices together. Here’s just some of the sounds you might catch when you’re not otherwise absorbed by the song’s metaphors or bursts of dance rhythms - “The owl-ish sound you hear at the beginning is from my son’s animal book (with speakers), which I sampled. There’s also an iPhone recording I made in 2012 of my feet wading through the snow, although I don’t remember where. The synth sound comes from a didgeridoo-esque instrument that I bought at a hippie camp outside Tel Aviv on a spontaneous trip when I was 18.” Ending with an sudden door slam, it’s left to the listener to decide whether that’s the signal of shutting the real or virtual universe out. - HT