

Neon on a rented street
Credit ticking under feet
Streaming dreams in 4K light
Swipe left, stay up all night
He’s got loans in quiet stacks
She’s got filters, facts, and hacks
Every headline scrolls too fast
Nothing’s built to last
We live for just these twenty years
Do we rent the next fifty out in fears?
Young Americans
Breathing through a data plan
Young Americans
Waiting on a better scan
Mom said, “Freedom’s in your hands”
Hands are full of shifting brands
Gig to gig and shift to shift
Hope is on a monthly drift
Therapy at half past nine
Mindfulness and cheap red wine
Doomscroll past the rising seas
Buy a tote that plants more trees
Young Americans
Posting where the sirens stand
Young Americans
Learning how to understand
No one storms the palace gate
We negotiate with fate
Vote by mail and mute the feed
Plant a garden, learn to read
Somewhere past the sponsored skies
Truth appears in smaller size
Not naïve and not immune
Just awake a little soon
Young Americans
Not as loud as history planned
Young Americans
Holding what they still can stan
- Lyricist
Valerie Enfield
- Composer
Valerie Enfield
- Producer
Valerie Enfield
- Guitar
Valerie Enfield
- Synthesizer
Valerie Enfield
- Vocals
Yewande
- Background Vocals
Valerie Enfield, Yewande
- Piano
Valerie Enfield
- Other Instruments
Valerie Enfield

Listen to Young 2020s Americans by Valerie Enfield
Streaming / Download
- 1
atarashii utayo (Instrumental)
Valerie Enfield
- 2
exi-loop (Mechanism Romance)
Valerie Enfield
- 3
Optimized (*Classify / distribute / update)
Valerie Enfield
- 4
Ψ-tones
Valerie Enfield
- 5
Glitch-Glitch!, Spin-Spin!
Valerie Enfield
- 6
begun
Valerie Enfield
- 7
White suggestion
Valerie Enfield
- 8
AI theatre
Valerie Enfield
- 9
Robotic funk
Valerie Enfield
- 10
Always 200
Valerie Enfield
- ⚫︎
Young 2020s Americans
Valerie Enfield
- 12
Verify the Calc
Valerie Enfield
- 13
Prompt Me Crazy
Valerie Enfield
- 14
Atarashii Uta yo (Umareshi Uta Yo)
Valerie Enfield
- 15
Epilogue-Still Breathing (OTT edit)
Valerie Enfield
Before & After Artifact is an electronic album that explores the emotions and confusion that emerge at the boundary between AI, humans, and the information-driven society.
The title refers to the "artifacts" - the traces left behind before and after a process. While calculation and optimization attempt to organize the world, errors, noise, and sensations that cannot be fully explained inevitably remain. This album quietly focuses on those byproducts: the subtle feelings and sense of dissonance that arise from within the system.
Drawing across elements of chiptronica, hyperpop, and IDM, the music ranges from light, playful electronic tones to hard-edged beats. Through these shifting textures, the album portrays the delicate fluctuations and temperature gaps between algorithms and human intention or emotion.
Between digital logic and human intuition, between efficiency and uncertainty, small misalignments begin to appear. At times with a touch of humor, the album gathers these moments and presents a psychological landscape of a world in which humans and AI coexist.



