Robots In Neckties
“Robots In Neckties”
recorded January 1993
from the album Of Dogma and Discipline
The teenage John Crave and Curt Battles recorded this dystopic vision of the future on a dark snowy day. It describes a world of “androids who have no souls” going about their daily routine of commuting and work. It takes place in a sci-fi future… or does it?
The obvious and heavy-handed metaphors used here could only be the product of an adolescent poet learning to look at the world with youthful skepticism.
The wavering pitch of Crave’s singing voice is just as much a clue as to his age.
