With soothing folk rock that sounded like an undiscovered gem from the 1960s, Velvet Sundown quickly became a hit on Spotify.
After releasing their debut album, Floating on Echoes on June 5, the band quickly reached number one on the music streaming app’s daily viral chart in the UK, Sweden and Norway.
But now the band, which has 1.1 million monthly listeners, has now admitted that their music was actually created using AI as part of an “art hoax”.
The band has since amended their bio on their Spotify page to admit they are a “synthetic music project guided by human creative direction”.
The admission split fans and ended weeks of speculation about the group, which even had photos showing the four “members” with beards, denim jackets and long hair like folk rock bands from the 1960s.
A social media account under the name The Velvet Sundown spent weeks denying the band was an AI creation.
