Album Review: Samuel Profitt The Grey Notebook Is A Dive Into Computerized Emotions

Artificial Intelligence has swept the world, to the joy and fear of many. Why fear? Because when you think artificial intelligence, many feel a sense of cold. After all, feelings are the core to humanity. Thus, Samuel Proffitt’s The Grey Notebook feels like artificial emotions. The synth-pop record has artificial chords running through its tracks like plugs, but Proffitt’s voice assures that its source is soul.

Throughout The Grey Notebook the rhythms are blatantly computerized, yet it will not have “die-hard” instrumentalists rolling in an uproar. Instead, the pixelated sounds make you feel like Proffitt has decided to save his journal on a computer. Each lyric feels typed into a screen to reflect a spiritual mirror. Like a grey notebook, Profitt uses electric frequencies to show the sentimental ones are beyond virtual or instrumental sonics. Even further, the heart cannot even be described as flesh and blood. For Profitt, love is something beyond all, which is why instrumental can be artificially made, and his cyber-sounding record elevate the mystery of what it means to feel.

Track by track, The Grey Notebook sounds like it is being written as it is heard. Proffitts voice oozes with an intimacy that makes him sound present in his emotions. It is as if he is singing what he feels at the exact moment you decide to listen to hi. The end-game is intoxicating as you think his sentiments are virtually conquering him through the synthetic keys and drums circle around his notes.  With a voice that echoes be soulful wait of Sam Smith profit is bound for success. Yet, it is his vocal ability that rises him to give the sense of claustrophobia that one can feel when they are overpowered by love. Proffitt is amongst the long line of the artists I have been reviewing that have seen how techno sound can symbolize a breaking heart.

Sladky Pt 2: going along with the oceanic theme this song feels like you are swimming in electronic waves of emotion. Proffitts soulful voice carries a twinkle throughout the track that makes him sound like the safety vest one gets thrown to protect them from drowning. This track shows that his voice contains a brightness that can also encompass the light needed when you are giving yourself to love.

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