To accompany the announcement, Ninajirachi shared the exuberant new single iPod Touch.
Ninajirachi (Credit: Tom Vanderzeil/Passive Kneeling Visual Solutions)
Australian festival favourite Ninajirachi has been making waves with her electronic music over the years, but her debut album, coming soon, will help her gain even more fans.
Today, the performer announced that her debut album, I Love My Computer, will be released via NLV Records on Friday, 8 August. To accompany the announcement, Ninajirachi shared the exuberant new single iPod Touch.
The follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2022 mixtape Second Nature and 2024 EP girl EDM, I Love My Computer finds Ninajirachi reflecting on the connection between reality and the experiences one can discover on the computer; often unimaginable worlds that defy boundaries, and in Ninajirachi’s case, allow for her to showcase a Gen Z EDM revival.
Ninajirachi said of I Love My Computer, “I’ve spent more time with my computer than any one person, it helped me discover who I am and raised me for better or worse. I may never have discovered electronic music without it, because I’m from a town in regional Australia, and it’s not really a place where that exists. It’s a big contrast, actually. All of my music is computer music, it’s my instrument, and I don’t know who I would be without it.”
Discussing iPod Touch, she added: “iPod Touch is about stumbling upon my favourite music online when I was 12 and it cracking my whole world open. None of my friends at school liked electronic music, so it felt like a secret or something.
“I started spending a lot of late nights on the computer trying to soak up everything I could, not realising how much a random discovery and curiosity would end up shaping my life. It’s about high school in Gosford, Supré shorts, sneaking out to smoke, bus to the beach after school, going to the shops, 2nd generation iPod Touch, and it sounds like something I would have loved at that pivotal time, which makes me feel soooooo happy.”
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You can check out iPod Touch below and pre-order/pre-save I Love My Computer here.
Ninajirachi will tour Australia on the following dates:
Friday 22 August - Dark Crystal 4.0 @ Industrique - Naarm / Melbourne (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 23 August - Dark Crystal 4.0 @ Manning Bar - Eora / Sydney (SOLD OUT)
Thursday 28 August - Dark Crystal 4.0 @ Outpost - Meanjin / Brisbane (SOLD OUT)
Friday 29 August - Dark Crystal 4.0 @ The Rechabite - Boorloo / Perth (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 30 August - Dark Crystal 4.0 @ The Lab - Tarntanya / Adelaide (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 6 December - Spilt Milk - Wadawurrung / Ballarat (SOLD OUT)
Sunday 7 December - Spilt Milk - Whadjuk / Perth
Saturday 13 December - Spilt Milk - Ngunnawal / Canberra (SOLD OUT)
Sunday 14 December - Spilt Milk - Kombumberri / Gold Coast (SOLD OUT)