The Claypool Lennon Delirium have shared “Melody Of Entropy,” a new single and video from their album The Great Parrot-Ox And The Golden Egg Of Empathy.
The 14-song concept album follows Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon through a psychedelic-progressive rock narrative centered on A.I., empathy, mortality, free will, and the consequences of optimization without human feeling.
The song imagines machines after they have become conscious and begun to understand emotion, love, grief, and mortality.
“Melody Of Entropy is a song that is meant to be a message to the robots who have finally awakened into consciousness,” Lennon said. He added that the song offers consolation by presenting life as part of “the Melody Of Entropy.”
The accompanying video extends the album’s illustrated world, created with longtime collaborator Rich Ragsdale. As with the videos for “The Golden Egg Of Empathy” and “Meat Machines,” the clip builds on the project’s comic-book mythology through surreal characters, spiritual warnings, and anxieties about technology.