The Claypool Lennon Delirium is a band formed by the rock supremo Less Claypool once the main man of Primus and Sean Ono Lennon. The musical universe has worked some wonderful juju bringing these two together. Add former members of Stone Giant and Cake to the mix too. They are scheduled to release a staggeringly good album, ‘The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy’ on 1st May. They have now put out the third single from that album. It is called “Meat Machines” and it is a tad fucking awesome! Lennon has called the band’s music as progadelic and it would be hard to disagree with that.
“Meat Machines” starts off with some chunky, fat synth licks and then gets some overlaid choral voices then the guitars and drums kick in just before the vocal. The pace picks up and from here on in you are infected with this magnificent song. A love the little reggae vibe thrown into the mix later. Lyrically the song perfectly questions the purpose of humans with lines like “And are humans nothing more than meat machines? Or is there more? Is there more to us?” and “When you can’t see the maze you’re in, how can you escape it?” Is there more to us as humans? I am not sure we are given the current state of the world. However this song gives me a sliver of hope!
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