Brace your ears, Google's new AI music platform promises improved melody and lyrics

In news set to send shudders down the spine of musos everywhere. and delight the enthusiastic slop-beat merchants, Google has dropped a new and more powerful version of its AI music generator.

Google today announced the launch of Lyria 3.5, a song generator songs, which is now rolled into Flow Music.

The 3.5 update aims to let creators produce richer tracks by improving melody, lyric quality, vocal expression and the ability to shape outputs such as tempo and duration, per Google's announcement.

Google says Lyria 3.5 creates "more complex, natural melodic structures", can generate lyrics with "improved prompt adherence and structural awareness", and delivers vocals with "greater emotional nuance".