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I Love My Computer
Studio album by
Ninajirachi
Released8 August 2025
Recorded2023–2025
Genres
Length39:49
LabelNLV
Producers
Ninajirachi chronology
Girl EDM
(Disc 1)
(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]

I Love My Computer is the debut studio album by Australian electronic music producer and DJ Ninajirachi. It was released on 8 August 2025 under NLV Records. Assembled from self-written material across six years, I Love My Computer draws inspiration from electronic dance music popular on the Internet during the 2010s and traverses genres ranging from hyperpop to trance and complextro. Ninajirachi, whose real name is Nina Wilson, described I Love My Computer as a tribute to her personal computer, which she calls "the greatest collaborator I'll know in this lifetime".

Ninajirachi compiled the album across two years with additional production from Darcy Baylis, Ginger Scott, and Kenta204, along some financial support from Music Australia. The album is noted for its loosely autobiographical lyricism, particularly about growing up in the early 2010s and interactions with technology and the Internet. Along its release rollout, the album also contains significant references to online and Australian culture. To promote the album, Ninajirachi embarked on an eponymous tour in 2025, and is due to follow with the I Love My Computer And It Loves Me Tour in late 2026.[7]

Upon release, I Love My Computer garnered international attention and received critical acclaim. Critics praised the album's eclectic production and candid portrayal of online life and relationships in its writing. It won Best Independent Release at the 2025 ARIA Music Awards, along 5 other nominations.[8][9] It also won the 2025 Australian Music Prize and Album of the Year at the 2025 J Awards, with the music video for "Fuck My Computer" winning Music Video of the Year.[10][11] Commercially, it peaked at number 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

Background

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Ninajirachi began professionally releasing music in 2017, after being a Triple J Unearthed High finalist for both 2016 and 2017.[12] Prior to I Love My Computer, she released 5 EPs. She cited the reason for having a large discography before her debut album as an intentional wait, describing wanting her debut to be "really good and meaningful and have something to say, rather than just be a bunch of songs put together".[13]

Production

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Ninajirachi's impetus for making a debut album came in 2023 after making "All I Am", resulting from a self-described "gut feeling that it was the time".[14] She began creating the album with future North American shows in mind, and created music which would be conducive to the live environment.[15] She assembled the majority of the album's tracks across the next year and settled on the album title in December 2024.[16] During this time, Wilson released her compilation Girl EDM (Disc 1) and toured EDM festivals in the United States and Europe with support from the Music Australia Export Development Fund offered by Creative Australia.[17]

The earliest material on I Love My Computer dates to late 2019, when Ninajirachi wrote the verses of "Delete" as "vocal gibberish over some piano chords".[18] She later completely re-recorded the song in early 2025 after realizing that it was "thematically perfect" for the album. With frequent collaborator daine, she wrote "It's You" in late 2023. Later, in 2024, she wrote "Infohazard" alongside Darcy Baylis at daine's "writing camp", with Baylis then additionally contributing guitars in the verse of "It's You".[18] "All I Am", the first song Ninajirachi made sonically for the album[19] and the first single, was conceived at a jam at Ben Lee's Los Angeles house when she first toured in the United States in 2023.[16] She later wrote that she was most proud of "Sing Good" as a track.[20]

Sequencing the album was an important part of I Love My Computer's production to Ninajirachi, who said that it was both meant to be listened to from "front to back" similar to the sequence of a DJ set and meant to be seen as individual songs simultaneously. 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.[21]

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."[22] 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.[23]

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.[24]

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.[25]

The song "CSIRAC" was written about the computer of the same name, Australia's first digital computer, which created electronic music on its own.[26]

Artwork and packaging

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Wilson said that the cover 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.[27] The cover was shot by Aria Zarzycki, who made several visual tweaks to the original photo on Adobe Photoshop, such as changing the wordmark "RABID" on Wilson's sweatshirt to "ILMC", an abbreviation of the album title.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The GuardianStarStarStarStarStar[28]
The Line of Best Fit9/10[29]
The Needle Drop8/10[30]
Pitchfork7.8/10[31]
Paste8.6/10[32]

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."[28]

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."[33]

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".[34]

Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic ranked the album as number 1 of his "10 Best Albums of 2025" list, describing the album's portrayal of the Internet as having an "aching warmth". He writes both of how "the synthetic claps and noisy basslines of [Wilson's] production evokes mega raves" and how the album "builds to a climax in which hope and fear are swept into the same rush of human experience". He also comments how the potential replicability of the album by generative AI tools highlights the importance of finding "old-fashioned meaning and transcendence".[35]

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.[36][37]

  • 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. ↑ 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. ↑ Corcoran, Nina (4 May 2026). "Ninajirachi Plots 2026 North American Tour". Pitchfork. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
  8. ↑ "Amyl and The Sniffers and Ninajirachi lead the 2025 ARIA Awards winners list". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 19 November 2025. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
  9. ↑ "ARIA Award nominations 2025: Ninajirachi, Dom Dolla, Amyl & The Sniffers lead the pack". Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "2025 Australian Music Prize Shortlist Revealed". The Music Network. 16 October 2025. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
  11. ↑ "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.
  12. ↑ "Ninajirachi: Future of Music 2025". Rolling Stone Australia. 15 April 2025. Retrieved 7 July 2026.
  13. ↑ Freedman, Max (20 May 2026). "Musician Ninajirachi on figuring out who you are – The Creative Independent". The Creative Independent. Kickstarter PBC. Retrieved 7 July 2026.
  14. ↑ Dunn-Christensen, Millie (9 April 2026). "Ninajirachi Loves Her Computer". Notion. Retrieved 7 July 2026.
  15. ↑ Fantano, Anthony (16 October 2025). NINAJIRACHI IS HERE!. Event occurs at 2:57. Retrieved 5 May 2026 – via YouTube.
  16. 1 2 Gwee, Karen (8 August 2025). "'I Love My Computer' is the album of Ninajirachi's electric dreams". NME. Retrieved 7 July 2026.
  17. ↑ "Ninajirachi is leading the charge for new generation EDM in Australia | Creative Australia". creative.gov.au. 8 August 2025. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
  18. 1 2 "NINAJIRACHI TRANSCENDS EDM'S OUTER LIMITS WITH VIRTUOSIC DEBUT ALBUM 'I LOVE MY COMPUTER' – NLV Records". NLV Records. 8 August 2025. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
  19. ↑ Fantano (2025), event occurs at 16:44.
  20. ↑ Kröger, Anne-Claire (8 August 2025). "Ninajirachi's I Love My Computer Makes Me Want To Live Online Forever". Ringtone Mag. Retrieved 7 July 2026.
  21. ↑ Fantano (2025), events occur at 35:57, 39:01, and 39:35.
  22. ↑ Medithi, Vivian (25 February 2026). "GEN F: Ninajirachi has big-tent feelings". The Fader. Retrieved 8 March 2026.
  23. ↑ Fantano (2025), events occur at 4:21, 15:38, 16:11, and 19:25.
  24. ↑ Fantano (2025), events occur at 7:56, 10:38, and 26:28.
  25. ↑ Fantano (2025), event occurs at 9:40.
  26. ↑ Fantano (2025), event occurs at 14:11.
  27. ↑ Fantano (2025), events occur at 28:05 and 29:26.
  28. 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.
  29. ↑ 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.
  30. ↑ Fantano, Anthony. "Ninajirachi – I Love My Computer". The Needle Drop. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  31. ↑ D'Souza, Shaad. "Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer". Pitchfork. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  32. ↑ Sollazzo, Cassidy (26 November 2025). "No Album Left Behind: Ninajirachi's 'I Love My Computer' is a restless, shapeshifting debut". Paste Magazine. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
  33. ↑ Anesi, Alessio (8 August 2025). "Ninajirachi Rewires Electronic Music With Stunning Debut Album, 'I Love My Computer'". EDM.com. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
  34. ↑ 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.
  35. ↑ Kornhaber, Spencer (12 December 2025). "The 10 Best Albums of 2025". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 1 March 2026. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
  36. ↑ 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)
  37. ↑ "I Love My Computer / Ninajirachi / Credits". Tidal. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
  38. ↑ "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 12 January 2026. Retrieved 24 January 2026.
  39. ↑ "Official Albums Sales Chart on 27/02/2026 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
  40. ↑ "Official Dance Albums Chart on 8/5/2026 – Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
  41. ↑ "Official Independent Albums Chart on 27/2/2026 – Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
  42. ↑ "ARIA Top 50 Australian Albums Chart for 2025". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
  43. ↑ "ARIA Top 50 Dance Albums Chart for 2025". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
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