Evan Greer - Spotify Is Surveillance (2021) Hi-Res

The musician and activist’s new album speaks truth to streaming giants, trans exclusionists, and extremely online leftists, but hits its stride at its sweetest and most nostalgic.

Evan Greer’s latest album is a cry against the past year’s numbness. Recorded at the artist’s home in Boston not long after lockdowns began funneling more and more of life into flattening digital channels, Spotify Is Surveillance looks simultaneously to the past and future for motivation and reassurance—anywhere but the deadening now. Greer’s folk-punk songs oscillate between the nostalgic and the propulsive, between grasping at the charge of teenage emotions and envisioning a livable future outside the grip of platform capitalism.