Fielded is obsessed with scammers and unhinged Japanese cyberpunk
Musician Lindsay Powell, known as Fielded, discusses her creative process, her reliance on Universal Audio hardware, and her disdain for AI in music. She highlights her eclectic influences, ranging from Japanese cyberpunk films to industrial funk.
Why it matters
It provides insight into the intersection of independent music production and the growing artist backlash against generative AI.
Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their Bandcamp page, Fielded started as an experimental noise project before growing into something closer to R&B. But from moment one, her take on the genre was restless, relentlessly playing with what R&B even means.
Her first album, Ninety-Thirty-Thirty, includes songs heavily indebted to ’80s synth-pop and features multiple saxophone solos. Boy Angel is a quirky electronic exploration with huge saw-wave synths, jittery percussion, and sky-high vocal stacks. While 2020’s Demisexual Lovelace is a slinkier affair, released on underground hip-hop imprint Backwoodz Studioz and features contributions from Billy Woods and Elucid (Armand Hammer).
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