Playlist Babel

The phone opens to a flood. Voices from everywhere, rhythms stitched together, each track a convergence. Diversity promised, sameness delivered.

A drill beat from London, a chorus from Seoul, a rhythm from Lagos. Heritage creased into algorithms, identity flattened by corporate organisation. Still a stubborn accent slips through, a guitar line unpolished, reminding us of continuity, of place.

The listener scrolls, caught between openness and homogenisation. Plurality is muted. Convergence shouts louder.

in the quiet
of the kitchen
one song resists

local
human
irreducible

Paul Conneally
New Reality Records
14th November 2025

Image is of Donkeyhead from Vamberator created by Jem Tayle.