The CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM
The Great Parrot Ox & The Golden Egg Of Empathy
ATO
Rel: 25 May 26
Psychedelic/Garage Rock
| Track 1. Pro-Log |
| Track 2. WAP (What A Predicament) |
| Track 3. The Wake Up Call |
| Track 4. Meat Machines |
| Track 5. Troll Bait |
| Track 6. Simplest Of Deeds |
| Track 7. Heart Of Chrome |
| Track 8. Through The Horizon |
| Track 9. Mantra Of The Manatee |
| Track 10. The Golden Egg Of Empathy (feat Willow) |
| Track 11. Cliptopia |
| Track 12. Cliptron Scuttle |
| Track 13. Melody Of Entropy |
| Track 14. It's A Wrap |
Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon are back with their first collaboration since 2019's South of Reality, meditating on past the seven years in which AI became a public force. The album's concept draws directly from Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom's Paperclip Maximiser: an AI tasked with making paperclips that converts all available matter - humans included - in pursuit of total efficiency. Here the territory is Cliptopia, the villain is Cliptron, the protagonist is Hippard O Campus J., and salvation rests with a mythical Parrot-Ox on the Isle of Lucidity. The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy lands somewhere between Zappa's extended world-building and P-Funk's cosmology, with neither figure's institutional weight behind it, but both their instincts for absurdist allegory present.