No Such Thing — Lo-fi rock cousins Amiright? get good and weird on album 'amiwrong?'

The French philosopher Yves Citton thinks that our current handwringing about young people and their inability to pay attention is overblown. In an era of machine learning, unending media streams and algorithmic precision, he suggests that the inability to pay attention may be one of our last bulwarks against faceless corporate power, or the rise of the robot race. "We're all familiar with the phrase, 'To err is human'," he says in a recent lecture in New York. "Perhaps we should reclaim that in full — to err is what makes us human." 

Amiright?, a band comprised of two young cousin-friends from Windsor named Noah and Quinn, seems like a fully human project. Their new album, Amiwrong?, is an 11-song collection of restless lo-fi indie flotsam and gems, a fun if uneven experimental document that makes some good times along the way. The two trade off songwriting duties on this one, passing guitars and drums between them from track to track. They ask important questions out of the gate, like "Do you want to pet my onion?" That query figures centrally in "The Onion Song," which begins exploring one musical idea and wraps fully immersed in another.