Nobody loves their computer more than Ninajirachi, and truly, she believes nobody in the world knows her better.
I first discovered the 25-year-old Australian producer under chronically online circumstances. As an avid Twitter user, I began to find a lot of my mutals hyping up this project, plastering the maximalist album cover all over my timeline, ordering limited edition CDs, gushing over t-shirt designs, and getting completely lost in this sonic space Ninajirachi has been busy creating. Usually, taking recommendations from online spaces can be hit or miss, but with Ninajirachi’s fans having this major crossover of allyship for artists like Porter Robinson and Frost Children, I decided I liked my odds.
[ I Love My Computer Album Cover Shot and Edited by @angel.fuel ]
I Love My Computer is Ninajirachi’s debut album, despite her being actively releasing music since at least 2016-2017. Leading up to this release, she’s been busy pioneering the Australian hyperpop and expanding the EDM scene, which included forming her own genre referred to as ‘Girl EDM’. This genre wound up sharing a name with the artist's 2024 EP of the same name. Unlike girl EDM, where in a NME interview, Ninajirachi referred to the project as “a bunch of music lumped together”, I Love My Computer was created with far more intention and cohesiveness. Listeners are able to follow his foundational thread throughout the project as Ninajirachi builds this world of electronica around them, as if we’re nothing but small ants on the street engulfed by these massive skyscrapers of sound.
Everything about I Love My Computer feels comforting to someone who grew up on the internet. Suddenly, I feel 10 again, listening to those YouTube EDM radios whilst playing a random assortment of video games, subconsciously learning to love throbbing bass and winding synths, feeling something spark inside of me at every well-placed drop. Ninajirachi herself shows she’s no stranger to these experiences, especially on tracks like ‘iPod Touch’ with lyrics like “It sounds like I've got a song that nobody knows / And I heard it in a post when I was twelve years old” and with the vulnerable ‘Sing Good’, where she sings “If somethin' really feels good, why then would I fight it? / And I can't really play good, but I've got a computer / I hear it in my mind and make it real”. For Ninajirachi, I Love My Computer is a grand homage to everything electronic in her life, every little detail that got her to where she stands today. It’s not the nostalgia of these moments she seeks, but more so the acknowledgment that music, the internet, and her computer helped her find her true passion.
But I Love My Computer doesn’t need to be profound by any means. Even once the subject matter is removed, you’re still left with an outstanding dance album that encapsulates so many different sounds. ‘CSIRAC’, named after the first computer to produce music, is heavier, lending itself to throbbing bass and slapping drums, with every element leading up to this satisfying release that mimics how I imagine the computer virus would sound after you tried to pirate a cracked version of FL Studio. ‘Delete,’ on the other hand, is a lot lighter, using higher-pitched vocals, piano sounds, and static synths that wrap up everything neatly. ‘Battery Death’ is a track that is perfectly built for the mainstage at a festival, with its overall ambience being transcendent in a way. It’s additional production peaks and valleys, alongside the steady clapping beat, would be essential for commanding a large-scale crowd, bringing in this level of maximum engagement, offering opportunities for listeners to completely get lost in the music, losing themselves to Ninajirachi’s curated beats.
However, nothing compares to the first single off the project, ‘All I Am’. Though it’s not necessarily unique within it’s placement on the album, as ‘Infohazard’ and ‘Battery Death’ follow similar formatting, and ‘ ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ (Cat Interlude)’ flows directly into ‘All I Am’, limiting the chance for a major shock, it still manages to stand out as this beacon of light on I Love My Computer, and I look forward to blasting it on my car speakers speeding down the highway at any opportunity. As a journalist, I believe that I should have the words to explain to you the sheer power of this song, but nothing I could say could compare to the feeling of hearing ‘All I Am’ for yourself. So, if you’re interested in checking out a single song off I Love My Computer, I would say let it be this one.
Ninajirachi and her love for her computer led to the creation of possibly my favourite album of 2025 to date. There’s something for each and every person who decides to tune in, and whether you get addicted to the entire project by the way every track seems to flow into one another, blurring your sense of time, or you wind up obsessing over an individual moment in I Love My Computer, you’ll be sure to walk out of your experience with a positive attitude, and hopefully a newfound love for Ninajirachi.
I Love My Computer by Ninajirachi is out now via NLV Records. You can stream it HERE.
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