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I Love My Computer

I Love My Computer is the debut studio album by Australian electronic musician, DJ, and producer Ninajirachi, released on 8 August 2025 by NLV Records.

I Love My Computer
Studio album by
Ninajirachi
Released8 August 2025
Recorded2024–2025
Genre
Length39:49
LabelNLV
Producer
Ninajirachi chronology
Girl EDM
(2024)		 I Love My Computer
(2025)
Singles from I Love My Computer
  1. "All I Am"
    Released: 25 February 2025[1]
  2. "Fuck My Computer"
    Released: 14 May 2025[2]
  3. "iPod Touch"
    Released: 20 June 2025[3]
  4. "Infohazard"
    Released: 17 July 2025[4][5]
  5. "It's You"
    Released: 8 August 2025[6]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The GuardianStarStarStarStarStar[7]
The Line of Best Fit9/10[8]
The Needle Drop8/10[9]
Pitchfork7.8/10[10]

Primarily written and produced by Wilson herself, I Love My Computer is an electronic dance music album inspired by Australian electronic music from her childhood, as well as the genres of trance and complextro.[11] Upon announcement, she said "I've spent more time with my computer than any one person. It helped me discover who I am… All of my music is computer music—it's my instrument, and I don't know who I would be without it."[3] The album is noted for its loosely autobiographical lyricism, particularly about being raised in the 2000s and early 2010s, commentary on technology and the Internet, as well as references to online and Australian culture.

I Love My Computer received critical acclaim and peaked at number 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It won Best Independent Release[12] at the 2025 ARIA Music Awards, and was also nominated for Album of the Year, Best Dance/Electronic Release, Best Cover Art, Best Engineered Release and Best Produced Release.[13] It also won the 2025 Australian Music Prize[14] and Album of the Year at the 2025 J Awards, with the music video for "Fuck My Computer" winning Music Video of the Year.[15]

At the AIR Awards of 2026, it was nominated for Independent Album of the Year, Best Independent Electronic Album or EP while NLV Records were nominated for Independent Marketing Team of the Year and Twnty Three for Independent Publicity Team of the Year, Nina Wilson for Independent Producer of the Year and Thomas Purcell for Independent Mix, Studio or Mastering Engineer of the Year for this album.[16]

Background and development

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Wilson began assembling I Love My Computer in mid 2024. She began making the album with future North American shows in mind, and created music which would be conducive to the live environment.[17] Wilson also said that the sequencing of the album was important in its production process, and that it was meant to be listened to from "front to back," similar to the sequence of a DJ set. Alt-J’s An Awesome Wave, Mk.gee's Two Star & The Dream Police, and Tame Impala’s Currents were references for the album's sequencing.[18]

Composition

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Vivian Medithi of The Fader described the album as a "mix of bloghouse, trance, and hardstyle" that "recombines DNA from Skrillex and Flume’s big-tent EDM with the flubbery pop of PC Music and Porter Robinson."[19] Wilson described the album's sound as "Girl EDM," which had become the title of her last EP. The name was inspired by her performance at a Los Angeles EDM festival, when her, MGNA Crrrta, Izzy Camina, and DJ Dave, all women, were the show’s main headliners. Ninajirachi also called the album "Australian dance music", influenced by her experiences growing up in rural Australia and by other dance artists from the country, like Empire of the Sun and the Presets. Wilson, however, was not involved in the Australian music scene during her early life, and said she was more a part of online music communities than local ones.[20]

Lyrically, the album centers Wilson's experiences as child listening to songs on her iPod touch, and her intimate relationship with technology and music as an adolescent and adult. Wilson also created a headcanon around technology during the album’s creation, characterizing 5G towers as "places of worship" for computers, among other things.[21]

Songs

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"Fuck My Computer," the album’s second single, was inspired by Wilson’s love of making music, as well as the frustration she felt when not able to transcribe a song idea she had in her head onto her music software fast enough.[22]

The song "CSIRAC" was written about the computer of the same name, Australia's first digital computer, which created electronic music on its own.[23]

"All I Am" was the first song on the album which Wilson made specifically for I Love My Computer.[24]

Artwork

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Wilson said that the artwork for I Love My Computer was inspired by "unidentifiable images", and was an attempt to fit as much of her life as possible into one image. The artwork was staged and shot in Wilson’s own room, and many of the objects pictured were her own belongings or were borrowed from friends.[25]

Critical reception

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Jared Richards of The Guardian described the album as "an immensely fun and inventive dance album that doubles as a surprisingly touching coming-of-age story."[7]

Alessio Anesi of EDM.com said: "The stunning album effectively crystallises the Australian artist as one of today's brightest young stars in the electronic music scene." Anesi said "[the] production lands as among the most unique in the contemporary electronic music landscape. Although Ninajirachi draws from sounds that were trending when she just was a toddler—like electroclash, YK2 [sic] trance and the complextro of Wolfgang Gartner and Zedd—this record feels modern and completely her own."[26]

Katie Bain of Billboard described the album as "smart, stylish and ebullient, with a bit of edge and a lot of observations on living and loving in our computer world", calling it "one of the year's best dance albums".[27]

Track listing

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All tracks are written and produced by Nina Wilson, except where noted.

I Love My Computer track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."London Song"  3:15
2."iPod Touch"
  • Wilson
  • Darcy Baylis
  • Wilson
  • Darcy Baylis
3:16
3."Fuck My Computer"  3:10
4."CSIRAC"  3:21
5."Delete"  3:51
6."ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ"
 1:06
7."All I Am"
  • Wilson
  • Greenwald
  • Lee
  • McDougall
  • DeVita
 3:02
8."Infohazard"
  • Wilson
  • Baylis
  • Wilson
  • Baylis
4:29
9."Battery Death"
  • Wilson
  • Ginger Scott
  • Wilson
  • Scott
3:18
10."Sing Good"  2:40
11."It's You" (with Daine)
  • Wilson
  • Baylis
  • Daine Lauren Wright
 2:49
12."All at Once"
  • Wilson
  • Kenta Hoskin
  • Wilson
  • Kenta204
5:26
Total length:39:49

Personnel

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Credits adapted from the album's liner notes and Tidal.[28][29]

  • Ninajirachi – production, sampler
  • Wave Racer – mixing
  • Wayne Sunderland – mastering
  • Darcy Baylis – production on "iPod Touch" and "Infohazard"
  • Ginger Scott – production on "Battery Death"
  • Kenta204 – production on "All at Once"
  • Aria Zarzycki – cover art, photography
  • John You – art direction, graphics

Charts

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References

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  1. ↑ Downs, Sarah (25 February 2025). "Ninajirachi Returns with New Single "All I Am"". Rolling Stone Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  2. ↑ Downs, Sarah (15 May 2025). "Ninajirachi Drops New Single "Fuck My Computer"". Rolling Stone Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  3. 1 2 Downs, Sarah (20 June 2025). "Ninajirachi Announces Debut Album "I Love My Computer"". Rolling Stone Australia. Vinyl Media. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  4. ↑ Young, David James (18 July 2025). "Ninajirachi Shares New Single "Infohazard", Sells Out Australian Tour". Music Feeds. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  5. ↑ Downs, Sarah (17 July 2025). "Ninajirachi Mines the Internet on "Infohazard"". Rolling Stone Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
  6. ↑ Downs, Sarah (12 August 2025). "Song You Need to Know: Ninajirachi, "It's You"". Rolling Stone Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
  7. 1 2 Richards, Jared (7 August 2025). "Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer review – a surprisingly moving tribute to 2010s EDM". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  8. ↑ Walker, Sophie Leigh. "Review of I Love My Computer by Ninajirachi: Coding girlhood in a valentine to tech". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  9. ↑ Fantano, Anthony. "Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer". The Needle Drop. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  10. ↑ D'Souza, Shaad. "Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer". Pitchfork. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  11. ↑ Gwee, Karen (8 August 2025). "'I Love My Computer' is the album of Ninajirachi's electric dreams". NME. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
  12. ↑ "Amyl and The Sniffers and Ninajirachi lead the 2025 ARIA Awards winners list". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 19 November 2025. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
  13. ↑ "ARIA Award nominations 2025: Ninajirachi, Dom Dolla, Amyl & The Sniffers lead the pack". Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  14. ↑ "2025 Australian Music Prize Shortlist Revealed". The Music Network. 16 October 2025. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
  15. ↑ "Get around all your big winners of the 2025 J Awards!". Triple J. 12 November 2025. Archived from the original on 12 November 2025. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  16. ↑ "2026 AIR Awards Nominees Announced!". Australian Independent Record Labels Association. 13 May 2026. Retrieved 15 May 2026.
  17. ↑ Fantano, Anthony (16 October 2025). NINAJIRACHI IS HERE!. Event occurs at 2:57. Retrieved 5 May 2026 – via YouTube.
  18. ↑ Fantano (2025), events occur at 35:57, 39:01, and 39:35.
  19. ↑ Medithi, Vivian (25 February 2026). "GEN F: Ninajirachi has big-tent feelings". The Fader. Retrieved 8 March 2026.
  20. ↑ Fantano (2025), events occur at 4:21, 15:38, 16:11, and 19:25.
  21. ↑ Fantano (2025), events occur at 7:56, 10:38, and 26:28.
  22. ↑ Fantano (2025), event occurs at 9:40.
  23. ↑ Fantano (2025), event occurs at 14:11.
  24. ↑ Fantano (2025), event occurs at 16:44.
  25. ↑ Fantano (2025), events occur at 28:05 and 29:26.
  26. ↑ Anesi, Alessio (8 August 2025). "Ninajirachi Rewires Electronic Music With Stunning Debut Album, 'I Love My Computer'". EDM.com. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
  27. ↑ Bain, Katie (20 August 2025). "Ninajirachi just dropped one of the year's best dance albums: 'I'm excited to be alive at the time of internet music'". Billboard. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
  28. ↑ I Love My Computer (Media notes). Ninajirachi. NLV Records. 12 September 2025.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  29. ↑ "I Love My Computer / Ninajirachi / Credits". Tidal. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
  30. ↑ "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 12 January 2026. Retrieved 24 January 2026.
  31. ↑ "Official Albums Sales Chart on 27/02/2026 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
  32. ↑ "Official Dance Albums Chart on 8/5/2026 – Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
  33. ↑ "Official Independent Albums Chart on 27/2/2026 – Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
  34. ↑ "ARIA Top 50 Australian Albums Chart for 2025". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
  35. ↑ "ARIA Top 50 Dance Albums Chart for 2025". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
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