The Claypool Lennon Delirium

Melody of Entropy

The fourth and last single before The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy arrived on May 1. Here the machines of the story have woken up: they are beginning to understand love, grief and the fact that they will end. Sean Ono Lennon has called the song a message to newly conscious robots, and a consolation – whatever is alive, made or born, is part of the same melody of entropy. Rich Ragsdale’s animated video carries the album’s comic-book world one chapter further.

Performed by Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon; produced by Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon. Recorded at Rancho Relaxo, Sonoma County, and The Farm, New York. Video directed by Rich Ragsdale, based on his comic for the album; animation by Rob Yulfo. From The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy, ATO Records, May 1, 2026. Photograph: Central News for Agence Rol, Eric, the mechanical man built by Captain W. H. Richards and A. H. Reffell, London, September 1928 – the first British robot, wearing on his chest the initials of Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R., which gave the world the word “robot” and ends with two robots learning to love. The original Eric was later lost. Bibliothèque nationale de France.