Dada Drumming Records has done us all a huge favor by releasing Bedtime for Robots' spankin' new album, World Monitor; and the creative world will never be the same for its exquisite, electronic artistry. World Monitor is, without debate, a thrusting, atmospheric classic for the eye-in-the-sky, robotic age.
Michael Ferentino is the impetus behind this omniscient explosion, and each World Monitor submission pulls one into both dangerous dystopias and Asimov-influenced contemplations.
For this ambitious cause, the album's title track ideally suits the view of positronic and Orwellian doom, epitomizing Ferentino's thematic plan. The track's notes shift with a gradual, surveillance groove, searching and prodding as would HAL's unblinking, red eye, scrutinizing one's actions to keep one forever confined.
In sync with "WorldMonitor'"s dominant air, there's "InhumanAnatomy" and "ArtificialTerror". Both bring to mind Frankenstein, though of metal and steel upon (and from off) backroom, assembly tables. Their chords are Terminator steered, referencing creature against creator, and all for the great, apocalyptic good.
"Mantle" hammers the calamity further, with a rocking rift that references rogue robots knocking skyscrapers to the ground: nightmarish from start to finish, but cool as the cruelest, self-induced cell.
"Oliver", on the other hand, helps one procure a synthetic pal. It feels like an accompaniment to Bicentennial Man, *Batteries Not Included, Heartbeeps and Short Circuit: friendly for its quirky twirls, though sublime for all its uncanny-valley implications.
Much like the latter, other selections brim with a distinct, workbench duality, and a grand example is "Yinyang", which shuffles a smooth melody against a razor-sharp stab. "BroccoliRabe" erects the same sardonic lift, its taste confounded yet enlightened, zooming its way toward utter collapse, though underscored by a hip-hop dance.
And speaking of dance, World Monitor kicks it into euphoric, high gear with "SpingWan", which swishes through the red lights of life, inspiring a crack, snapple and pop that only an agile automaton could demonstrate. "Actually,HeWasMurdered" is just as tremendous in its incessant scope: an angry, android chorus line with throat-slashing vigor.
Contrasting the aforementioned selections, World Monitor holds a subversive, organic side, as one's ears will find in its first track, "SkeletonKiss" and then in its final, "LovecraftMineshaft". Each odd opus invokes the creepy crawl of graveyards and inter-dimensional demons, where bones bend and tentacles thrash. Their sounds are melded and layered on the same avant-garde plane as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
For those who like their music built and bolted straight from the heart, Bedtime for Robots' World Monitor will fulfill like no other.
Switch on Ferentino's motorized masterpiece at
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