With no clear origin and an unexpectedly large digital audience, The Velvet Sundown raises important questions about the role of artificial intelligence, curation, and authenticity in music consumption. In recent months, a band called The Velvet Sundown has gained over 400,000 monthly Spotify listeners, appearing on editorial playlists and generating streams at a swift rate. On the surface, they’re presented as a four-piece psych-rock outfit blending cinematic alt-pop with dreamy, analogue-inspired soul. But there’s one potential problem, or rather, a growing number of them which is that no one seems to know who they actually are. According to their Spotify…