Kill The Robot is the debut album by Kill The Robot who are the new band of Stephen Gibb, who is Barry and Linda Gibb's little boy. He formed Kill The Robot with Gil Bitton, Gordon Myers and J.P. Espiritusanto, with special guests Kenny Cordova, Barry Gibb, Ben Stiver and Warren Riker. The album was produced by Stephen Gibb and Warren Riker at The G Spot.
The album eases in with Mothership that slowly elegiacally fades in, like the theme music for a sci-fi film, before the ringing guitars and vocals come in to make clear the alienation they feel with the world. Are they on a huge journey and can they ever really reach the destination they hope to attain, while having a post hardcore shoegaze feel, with added middle eastern elements that the scorching guitar solo weaves between.
Western Shores are filled once more with people seeking a place of safety and comfort, with anthemic rising guitars and in places skittery percussion they seek guidance to find a place of strength and comfort rather than despairing rootlessness.
See The World is hoping for a post war world, a place of peace, where he hopes to still be with his closest friend Brett Thorngren, who sadly committed Suicide during the Covid pandemic, this album is dedicated to his and Taylor Hawkins memory. This song has a very 80's massive rock anthem feel, all the loss and sorrow that you're not still here to bounce ideas off of and travel round the world on tour with you, with good backing vocals by his dad Barry.
Better Than makes clear that the best reasons for existence is to love those around you and make the world a better place, this is hopeful despite the bleak reality we are often surrounded by.
Summer Days reminds me of Cutting Crew, rather than having fun in the middle of the Summer, lyrically this is full of despair at a world full of fakery and deceit.
NoI3lse has a heavy, proggy feeling, for a song that comes from the point of view of someone who is despised and on someone else's death list, how do you deal with that sort of situations and can you persuade your haters to love you instead.
Agave is the feelings of things going terribly wrong, when you may have had a drink or three of that Agave too many, just don't believe the haters, make your own way and make sure you follow your own path and don't let all those bitching voices get to you, the guitars try to crush them for you.
Right Now is it the time to follow the sheep into the morass, or should you still try to forge your own path, with one more careful guitar solo, a slow thoughtful bass line and those drums plodding through the pain, so stop running and get ready to fight for a better world than the robots are trying to create.
Drug is making clear to your lover that you are the most powerful drug they need, you should give in and accept that Love is the strongest of all drugs, with a chorus that needs a good sing along to it live, to help us all understand, that if we need help when life becomes too much, we can turn to the ones we love and they will help us.
The album closes with Atomic Haze that sounds like it should be a strain of Grass or a particularly strong IPA rather than this bass led song, for trying to survive the coming apocalypse and environmental collapse, this song has an immense echo chamber drum sound, that needs to be heard as loud as you can hear it for full impact, before the squiggly breakdown ready to build towards the albums climax.
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