New Album, Willow, and More
Rolling Stone • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Les Claypool and Sean Lennon spent three years creating their third album as Claypool Lennon Delirium, The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy, describing it as their hardest and most monumental project to date.
- The album is a rock opera inspired by a thought experiment about AI destruction, featuring a complex narrative that challenged the duo to fit all songs into a cohesive story.
- Claypool and Lennon have contrasting creative styles, with Claypool favoring spontaneity and Lennon focusing on intricate layering and perfection, balancing each other’s musical tendencies.
- Willow is the only guest vocalist on the album, with Lennon highlighting their long-standing friendship and unreleased collaborations, praising her experimental and diverse musical tastes.
