Graveyard Shift: Voice Actor

The debut album "Sent From My Telephone", which Voice Actor released last October on the Belgian label Stroom, is four and a half hours long and consists of 110 songs. It's an almost alarming amount of music, and anyone who gets into the work won't find their way out in a hurry. The ambitious project was originally conceived as a radio broadcast, and the pieces range from 25-second voice messages to eight-minute ambient excursions. The anchor remains the voice, which leads through crashing noise, fractured beats, hysterical loops and delirious textures. Through "Sent From My Telephone," we can exist for a while in Voice Actor's world, which is a counterproposal to the algorithm-driven, bite-sized, streamlined playlist culture of Spotify and co. The rest of the world decides to chop everything up into TikTok-ready bites, Voice Actor has done the opposite and given us a plea for the long haul.