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Seemingly AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown have over 400,000 monthly Spotify listeners
Seemingly AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown have thousands of monthly Spotify listeners but have only existed for a month
Per their artist bio, they’re a “four-piece” comprised of “vocalist and mellotron sorcerer Gabe Farrow, guitarist Lennie West, bassist-synth alchemist Milo Rains, and free-spirited percussionist Orion ‘Rio’ Del Mar”, and make “cinematic alt-pop and dreamy analogue soul.” Questions surrounding Velvet Sundown’s legitimacy came after Reddit users who had come across the band in their Discover Weekly playlists began digging, finding little background information on them outside of their Spotify profiles. The band’s bio also includes a quote from Billboard, saying their music sounds like “the memory of something you never lived, and somehow make it feel real,” though the publication has never actually published this.
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