It feels aesthetically consistent with her music to be writing about RUI HO's Lov3 & L1ght on a laptop because it's one of those albums that sounds like your computer is literally singing to you. There are a lot of reasons for this, chief among them is the vocal effects applied to RUI HO's voice emerges as a gasp and a breath of pleasure from a builtin PC speaker wired up to shy and romantically frustrated ghost nestled in the heart of machine's fizzling hard drive. Part of the reason RUI HO employs these effects is to compensate for some perceived deficiencies in her voice, but it works within the mix to reinforce the fantasy that the music calls into existence with its crystalline tones, hushed rave beats, tinkling drum-machine back-chatter, and cloud-surfing synths, the album map out the geography of a world that is radically accepting, indulgently soft and intoxicatingly bright. The melodies, for the most part, appear inspired by shades of underground R'nB from around the globe, affected by pre-hyper pop restraint in pitch control and overcall consistency of presentation, accompanying production choices that transform music that could easily be received as chaotic and disordered, and instead allows it to manifest as something thoroughly sublime. Lov3 & L1ght is like an AI's rendering of a rave in heaven which you can beam yourself into at the click of a button.
