Lego White Noise

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Lego White Noise
Studio album by
Lego
Released1 February 2021
Genre
Length209:46
LabelWest One

Lego White Noise is an album

sound designers using 10,000 bricks, with each track focused on separate routines or sounds, and features ASMR qualities intended to help adults relax. It has been described as a work of musique concrète
.

Recording and composition

Lego White Noise was conceived by the

bonsai tree.[6]

The album, which runs for 210 minutes, includes seven 30-minute tracks,

reverb.[2] It has been described as white noise,[1] and a "soothing ASMR playlist".[7] John Doran of The Guardian also noted the ASMR qualities and compared some parts of the album to Einstürzende Neubauten and the music covered in The Wire.[2]

"Built for Two" is an abstract noise track depicting the sound of a typical Lego session, with "bricks being scraped across baseplates".[2] "Searching for the One (Brick)" showcases a hand rustling through a bag of bricks, followed by "the sought-after brick being set aside for later use."[1] "Wild as the Wind" emulates the sound of rustling trees in the wind,[9] achieved by "sifting through waves of LEGOs".[6] "The Waterfall" is the sound of numerous bricks being poured onto each other,[6][9] while "It All Clicks" is centred on the sound of bricks being clicked together.[9][1]

Release and reception

Lego White Noise was released by the LEGO Group and

streaming on music platforms including Spotify, iTunes and Apple Music.[1][7][10] The album cover features Lego's adult-oriented flower bouquet set.[4]

In his article for The Guardian, John Doran wrote that "Lego White Noise joins the ranks of great

eco-friendly plastics, and that in documenting "a potentially doomed sound", the album could become "a work of hauntology, a valuable sonic document evoking happy cultural memories of childhoods, and parenthoods, via sounds now in danger of being altered for good."[2] A reviewer for YP noted that while Lego bricks are known for making "distractingly sharp noises", the album instead profiles "a calm white noise that will down out most unwanted sounds." They wrote: "The soothing sound of trickling, rustling, clicking, falling is magnificently Zen, and the perfect soundscape for these troubled times."[1] Clinton Matos of Hypertext wrote that while the album is promoted as white noise, it is better understood as a work of ASMR, which they deemed "a real rabbit hole of a subject and a big money maker for creators of it on places like YouTube."[4] Michele Debczak of Mental Floss recommended the album for white noise or "brain-tingling ASMR".[7] "Searching for the One (Brick)" has been highlighted as the album's best track by several writers.[1][9]

Track listing

  1. "Built for Two" – 30:00
  2. "Wild as the Wind" – 30:00
  3. "Searching for the One (Brick)" – 29:46
  4. "It All Clicks" – 30:00
  5. "The Waterfall" – 30:00
  6. "Big Hearted Bricks" – 30:00
  7. "The Night Builder" – 30:00

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Reuteurs (6 February 2021). "'Lego White Noise' review: There have been movies and comic books, and now the plastic block people have an album". SCMP. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Doran, John (4 March 2021). "'10,000 tiny instruments': how Lego made the experimental album of 2021". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  3. ^ Richards, Will (3 February 2021). "Lego share soothing new 'White Noise' playlist of the sound of Lego bricks". NME. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Matos, Clinton (1 February 2021). "LEGO's 'White Noise' playlist sounds a lot like ASMR to us". Hypertext. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  5. ISBN 9789354795657
    . Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  6. ^ a b c Schatz, Luke (1 February 2021). "LEGO Releases Soothing "White Noise" Playlist Made Up of The Sounds of LEGO Bricks: Stream". Consequence. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  7. ^ a b c d Debczak, Michele (2 February 2021). "LEGO's White Noise Playlist Is the ASMR Your Inner Child Needs". Mental Floss. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  8. ^ Kenneally, Cerys (4 February 2021). "This LEGO album of brick-building sounds is actually quite soothing". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  9. ^ a b c d Peters, Jay (1 February 2021). "Lego made a white noise playlist, and it takes me back to being a kid". The Verge. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  10. ^ a b "Our White Noise Album with Lego". West One Music. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  11. ^ "A New Mindful Mix: the LEGO Group releases a soothing soundscape created with thousands of LEGO bricks". LEGO. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  12. ^ "The making of LEGO White Noise". YouTube. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
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