PAUL MOLLOY returns with tales of alien invasions, raisins, megalomania and an algorithmic echo chamber.
OUT now via Spring Heeled Records the gloriously eccentric ‘The Madmen Of Apocalypso,’ the latest album from Merseyside-based national treasure and The Coral guitarist, PAUL MOLLOY.
Take a peek into the furthest corners of Molloy’s mind and enjoy a musical journey involving alien invasions, raisins, puppet master’s and banksters, Guantanamo Bay, PTSD, and a ukulele, of megalomania, and an algorithmic echo chamber. And a whole lot more.
‘Artificial Intelligence’ has been selected as the showcase single, focusing on AI and the humiliation of mankind by robots, to lead listeners into the album.
“’Artificial Intelligence’ outlines the possibility of the human race being over overtaken by self-replicating AI robots,” explained Molloy. “Evil, self-serving, power-hungry ones at that as well. Ones that can multitask; skip, dance and make love, whilst simultaneously changing a plug and bringing sheer humiliation and obsolescence to mankind. But there’s one thing they can’t do. They can’t sing a workman’s song!
“And the track ‘Apocalypso’ plays a central role in the album. A bit of wordplay, it’s essentially a send up dance craze tune à la the Macarena, Watusi, The Monkey, Jerk or The Twist, but set to a calypso rock n’ roll beat with inverted biblical lyrics and mariachi horns. A newfangled dance that grants the participants access to Heaven when they die, depending on their level of skill at the dance. With the dance judge being none other than St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, it embraces the idea that no matter how hard we try, we seem unable to stop ourselves on being hellbent on destruction.”
‘The Madmen Of Apocalypso,’ is without doubt the most diverse album I’ve heard during 2024, it won’t appeal to the narrow-minded, but will without doubt be savoured by those who find beauty in the bizarre, majesty in the maverick.
“The track ‘Absent Friends’ – along with ‘Hey Nancy’ – marks the two departures on the album from apocalyptic narrative and maybe gives us a chance to reflect on life and death in its more natural nature. Whereas ‘Nancy’ is a song to peer vicariously in wonder through a young child’s eyes, ‘Absent Friends’ is a longing and reminiscence for those loved ones who have gone.
“Family and nostalgia are at its focus, grief and loss, memories and good times, ghosts of past lives. “Life’s one big weekend,” is what my mother used to say.”
Indeed it is Mrs Molloy, and it’s all the better because of ‘The Madmen Of Apocalypso.’
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