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Lyric

Epilogue-Still Breathing (OTT edit)

Valerie Enfield

Breath / static

Inside the wire

Skin learns the pressure

Before I decide

Signal under my tongue

Melting, misaligned

Don’t name it

Don’t frame it

Let it bend

I fold the silence

Into my chest

Pulse without reason

Weight without rest

Touch the ache

Slow and raw

I’m not broken

Just open

Too far

Edges hum in blue

Time slips through the bone

Every sound remembers

What I can’t hold

Ah —

Cut / stretch / release

Ah —

Stay with the noise

No shape

No promise

Still breathing

  • Lyricist

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  • Synthesizer

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  • Vocals

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  • Background Vocals

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  • Other Instruments

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Before & After Artifact Front Cover

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    atarashii utayo (Instrumental)

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  • 2

    exi-loop (Mechanism Romance)

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  • 3

    Optimized (*Classify / distribute / update)

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  • 4

    Ψ-tones

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  • 5

    Glitch-Glitch!, Spin-Spin!

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  • 6

    begun

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  • 7

    White suggestion

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  • 8

    AI theatre

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  • 9

    Robotic funk

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  • 10

    Always 200

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  • 11

    Young 2020s Americans

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  • 12

    Verify the Calc

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  • 13

    Prompt Me Crazy

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  • 14

    Atarashii Uta yo (Umareshi Uta Yo)

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    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.

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