The final pre-release single for Mega Infinity’s album is out now, and along with it, they’ve officially announced their upcoming album to be titled Harmonic Convergence and released on March 3, 2026. The single, “The Crowd Goes Mild”, is more of a rock/post-punk track featuring MC Lars. Mega Infinity has always been hard to pin into a single genre, and they’ve generally been fairly ska- adjacent, but this feels like a bit of a shift closer to other genres, a little further from ska than usual.
The song is primarily an indictment of social media and AI-generated music, and about making human connections through your music. The worst part about the music industry for many artists (aside from the fact that streaming platforms don’t even pretend to pay artists for their work) might be the constant mandatory social media presence. Being a musician in today’s world often means creating content for social media algorithms, and failure to do so means you have no way to reach your fans or expand your reach. You become slaves producing content for TikTok, Elon Musk, or Mark Zuckerberg, who can throttle your reach or help you find new fans with your latest viral clip. And while you’re trying to do something to make your band stand out, you have to compete against Ai, which makes soulless work that gets force fed into algorithms over human content because the oligarchs that own the companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying the Ai tools that they desperately want to replace human made content to keep their platforms relevant even if all the content creators leave, and Ai music that many streaming services promote of human artists for the same reasons- they won’t have to pay the Ai and the shills that create the prompts for generating the music can push out thousands of new songs every day without effort.
As I mentioned before, the song is solid; it is mostly rock, as the beginning of the song feels fairly consistent with the music that Mega Infinity generally creates, with lyrics about algorithms and rage bait being promoted to drive interactions and divide people, as art gets pushed to the side and discarded. MC Lars comes in with their second verse, adding a new texture to the song with almost-rapped vocals and a new rhythm while maintaining similar themes and focusing on creating art. At the same time, the music industry tries to package everything neatly to make it all sound the same, destroying the work’s soul. Later in the song, the lyrics reference an earlier Mega Infinity song in “Chaos Magic,” saying they have no power over us, suggesting it’s better to play music that means something and isn’t what the algorithms favor, even if the crowds go mild. It’s more meaningful to make art than it is to follow an algorithm and give up your soul. The chorus gets fairly aggressive, as a fun juxtaposition of the vocals going wild while the lyrics of the crowd go mild. Finally, the song ends with aggressive guitar riffs, taking it into a heavier rock and more hardcore sound.
I ask you to please go mild to the sound of Mega Infinity, or whatever artist brings you joy. Stream their music where you can. Support your local music scene and watch a live performance this month. Don’t give your Spotify subscription. Don’t listen to any AI music. Support an artist and build back your music scene. We are all in this together.
Written by Gimp Leg
