Released October 25th, 2025, 献给AI的思考 is not just an album but the culmination of a year-long cultural and emotional experiment from musician–engineer Aleksandr Podkhaliuzin, known here under the Chinese name 彭俐客. Written first as a narrative before ever touching the music, the project channels the disorientation, longing, and unexpected tenderness of living in China as an outsider. It sits at the crossroads of human memory and machine collaboration, blending classical piano and guitar with iterative AI-assisted production to make a relatable and personal soundl. Love, homesickness, cultural friction, and identity run like golden cracks through the record, fittingly mirrored in the album artwork that depicts a pristine cube split by a shining fracture.
The opener “迷路的老外 – Lost Foreigner” drifts in with relaxing guitar strums and gentle beats, the vocal warm and soft, almost like a diary spoken under streetlights. The singer moves through bustling crowds, feeling both held and displaced, his voice carrying lightness even as he admits loneliness. The chorus settles into something comforting through belonging discovered not through fitting in, but through connection, as in the line, “陌生的归属感，是你给我的答案。” / “A strange sense of belonging, that’s the answer you gave me.”
At the album’s center is “裂缝 – The Rift,” the emotional pivot. It opens with calm, then slowly, fractures of distorted textures, grinding edges, and drums hitting like internal panic arrive. The vocal grows rough, urgent, and strained before falling back into a stunned quiet with a single piano line before a final grinding blow of the distortion. It’s the sound of something breaking that was never whole to begin with.
Later, “沉沦 – Falling” leans into melancholic piano and heavy beats, with the vocal rich and weary, offering toasts to loneliness, identity, and inner collapse. It aches tragically in the line, “再一杯，让我沉沦 / 在这人间，做一个酒鬼.”/ “One more drink, let me sink into this world, to become a drunkard.”
献给AI的思考 is intimate, wounded, and searching as a love letter, a confession, and a cultural autobiography written in human grief and machine glow. Listen to it on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan