The reservedly cheerful, official and in-control facade of the newsreader (like many newsreaders, even in our own times, it is unclear whether it is human or robot) masks the gravity of the situation that is already unfolding. Some time has passed by the time we receive the (very important and informative) snippet from CXR news. But the pride, almost arrogance, that have developed in his (human-imprinted) algorithms, and which he can, at this point, only pour into his coffee making, will ultimately have an effect on how his story unfolds. I can’t help but like him and feel that there’s a lot there, and it can’t help but be wondered who he might be were he to experience life outside of his duties. It’s a 2418 slice-of-life from a highly skilled domestic servant’s point of view. He’s an intelligent coffee machine (he can even speak Italian, and probably other languages too), and has an expansive, positive, and really quite sexy attitude towards his work. We can’t help but feel that there has been an intervening period of hardship, collapse, desertification, etc., resulting in a unified political system under the Corporation to which humans owe the continuation of their tenuously comfortable position on the planet.Ĭoffee Machine is a lovely but, at root, deeply sinister song, in which we meet one of the characters with a voice for the first time. There are necessarily big changes in economics, basic living conditions, farming, etc., that future technology and intervening centuries have wrought, but at which we can only guess from what we receive in this song. Zombie Insects gives us a glimpse into the worldwide human belief system that has evolved out of older systems through social engineering, integration and a combination of essential faiths (in religious ideas, government, and technology, three-in-one, and one-in-three), which underpins societal stability in 2418. It is not yet formed or implemented, but the seed of humanity’s undoing is right there.
In Feminist Sexbot, though there are (as yet) no words, we are to understand (only later, however, when we have more context) that a rising consciousness of injustice in the “servant” classes of the algorithmic races, and especially in those who must bear the worst of humanity’s “dark” sides, is leading to a rebellion of some kind. It’s not exactly known how this was successful, but it sounds as though it’s come through on some kind of shortwave radio signal. Reaching Back sets this premise (in several popular human languages, in order to reach maximum exposure), and we get the feeling that the broadcast we have received is not complete because those who were brave enough to send it sacrificed their lives in order to do so.
#WOWHEAD FULL DISCOGRAPHY SERIES#
We piece together certain facts about this “future” time, in much the same way that archaeologists can piece together stories of the past from fragments of bones, drinking vessels, and (of course!) endless series of small walls. It arrives in the form of a series of songs from a variety of points of view, and gives us a glimpse into the unfolding of events in 2418. The Lowest of Low has risked life and limb to send the message back to the humans of earth in the past to avert the extinction of the human race. The recording you are hearing has been sent back 400 years, to 2018, to warn humanity, at the very beginning of the Golden Age of Human-Robotic Symbiosis (the year GAH-RS 1), of the dire consequences unleashed by the continuing mistreatment of the “algorithmic races” in the same manner as we have mistreated each other for centuries. These albums are time capsules to me, so I structure them as whole, more or less self-contained entities to be unearthed and puzzled over by generations centuries from now, after the Calamity. So naturally, my contrary self found great excitement in creating a story album, meant to be listened to in order from start to finish. In the streaming age, it seems silly to even pay attention anymore to anything so antiquated as the track order and flow of your albums, let alone to try to do anything beyond that.
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