Phiik & Lungs, recording as Another Planet, team with steel tipped dove for *People Are Not Your Friends* an album that genuinely feels like an old robot found in a crawlspace and shocked back to life. Dove’s production is raw, mechanical, and uneasy: glitchy drums, warped samples, and a consistently claustrophobic atmosphere that never quite lets the listener settle. Phiik & Lungs deliver high-density, associative lyricism that collides images of Brett Favre’s hands tremoring from Vicodin withdrawal with a New Yorker walking nervously through a Midwestern Target convinced he’s become the target of a mass shooting. The data does not compute on first pass, which is exactly how the world has felt for some time. Features from AKAI SOLO, ShrapKnel, and Fatboi Sharif slot perfectly into this anxious universe. This isn’t comfortable boom bap for passive listening it’s anxious, misfiring, and deliberately overwhelming in the best possible way. As Paul Thompson wrote in POW, the first time you hear Phiik & Lungs is often the first time you’re glad to feel as if your brain is misfiring.
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