THINK LIKE A KEY MUSIC

Twelve tracks split between Fran’s lo-fi storytelling and lush AI-orchestrated soundscapes—2025’s most human artificial album.

For his third outing, Fran Ashcroft lets the machines speak—then trims their ramblings into a warm, weird, and deeply British suite of minimal-vocal dramas and shimmering robo-instrumentals. After sifting through thousands of AI arrangements (and keeping only the top 5%), he lands on a sound equal parts Coward, Dury, and tomorrow’s string section. This isn’t man vs. machine—it’s man with machine, and it’s quietly magnificent.

One foot in a duck pond, the other in the singularity. Only Fran.

Monolith Cocktail raves: "An album of warmth, beauty and songs of lyrical accuracy of everyday British life that stands alongside the works of Coward, Davies, Dury and Haines."