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Published on 2026-05-02
The Claypool Lennon Delirium’s new album The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy is out now digitally via ATO Records. The sprawling 14-song concept record finds Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon building their most elaborate Delirium world yet - a surreal, psychedelic-prog cautionary tale about A.I., empathy, mortality, free will, and what happens when systems are pushed toward pure optimization without any grounding in human feeling.
Released earlier this week, the album’s latest single and video “Melody of Entropy” stands as one of its strangest and most unexpectedly tender moments. Where earlier singles “WAP (What a Predicament),” “The Golden Egg of Empathy (feat. WILLOW),” and “Meat Machines” explored technological control, cold efficiency, and the fight to hold onto what remains human, “Melody of Entropy” imagines a moment after the machines themselves have awakened into consciousness.
“Melody of Entropy is a song that is meant to be a message to the robots who have finally awakened into consciousness,” shares Lennon. “As they realize they can feel, and love, and cry, and lament for the first time the finitude of the their own lives, the song offers some consolation by explaining that they are just a drop of rain on an endless sea, a splash of paint on a masterpiece, an instance in an infinity, and that life itself is the Melody of Entropy.”
The accompanying video continues the visual language of the album, drawing from the richly illustrated world created with longtime collaborator Rich Ragsdale. Like the previous videos for “The Golden Egg of Empathy” and “Meat Machines,” the clip pulls listeners deeper into the project’s comic-book mythology, where absurdist characters, spiritual warnings, and chrome-plated anxieties collide.
