On each album since In Standard Definition, Art d’Ecco‘s music has changed drastically, but his social commentary always felt like the perspective of a wry outsider.
On Scheele’s Green, it finally sounds like he has skin in the game. Named for a vivid, deadly pigment used in 18th and 19th century paint, toys, and food dye, his fifth album tackles the proliferation of AI data centers, climate change, corrupt politicians, and war — as well as humanity’s age-old compulsion to literally and figuratively foul its nest — with palpable rage and grief.
Where the precision of d’Ecco’s pop was one of the main strengths of his previous albums, on Scheele’s Green he colors outside the lines. On songs like “How Real Is Real,” which pairs…

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