Yen Tech – Extinction Game

On his second full-length album, Assembler, Yen Tech skewers cringe accelerationists and dystopian tech culture with a work of arch cyber-gothic storytelling, a heady blend of meta-sci-fi speculative fiction, bleeding-edge production and ASMR-inducing corporate spoken word. “I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation,” he says of the album. “It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are.” ‘Extinction Game’ envisions a post-singularity world, where technology has outpaced human evolution to such an extent that emotional and psychological progression can only be quantified by the multi-stack systems upon which their existence is predicated. “With Assembler I was exploring how the (future )