THE SINGULARITY

As suggested by the name of the EP, ‘Future No Brainers’ is a loose concept album centered around issues that will gather significant importance over the next half-century. This song refers to the moment in time when artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence and forever change our relationship to machines. It is not a song illustrating hypotheticals, but rather a sonic outpouring of anxiety for an uncertain future. The simple refrain of the song talks about how humans are increasingly running on autopilot at a time when many futurists insist the dawn of sentient machines is rapidly approaching.


DO THE PATENT SHAKEDOWN

At the heart of it, this is a song about capitalism and innovation as we shift our focus away from manufacturing goods and instead become an economy based on information and ideas. With this shift, patents, which were once viewed as a rather benign safeguard for intellectual property, are increasingly being used to preemptively trademark vague ideas in the hopes of extorting money from prospective technology companies small and large who are actually trying to make things. This practice is known as patent trolling and it is quickly becoming ubiquitous. This is our freedom song for ideas – our rally against the litigious parasites of the 21st century.


THESE ROBOTS ARE KIDS

Bookending the 1st half of our EP is another song about the time when artificial intelligence becomes self aware. These humorous hypotheticals about Robots are predicated on the idea that like humans, Robots will undergo phases of development starting with infancy and childhood before arriving at the oft-dreaded adolescent years. It's a plea for understanding, really. Like their human analogs, teenage robots are going to fuck up and they're going to act like little shits, and we're all going to have to be okay with that.


WE’RE STARDUST, IT’S GREAT!

On an abstract level, this song is about the escalating tension between the notions of science and how these ideas are increasingly at odds with views that have been passed down for millennia. More specifically it's about how people tend to look out into the night sky and feel small instead of large. It remarks on how so many people adhere to mythological origin stories to derive purpose in their lives rather than rejoicing in the infinitesimal odds that we have made the journey from being elements of an exploded to star to beings pondering our own existence. The chorus drives home the fact that we squander the unthinkable awesomeness of a black hole on everyday hyperbolic statements, highlighting just one example of how we take our privileged place in the universe for granted.


CRTs

This one is a consolation song for the punks. There has never been one clear consensus on what it means to be "punk" in the last 40 years, but one thing is clear — the notion of fucking shit up and obliterating everything in your path is increasingly seen as unsustainable if not philosophically juvenile. Yet, there is an undeniable punk rock quality to destroying things. This song is a call to reignite the flames of any aged punk rockers who feel their "search and destroy" way of life is viewed with increasing dubiousness by a subculture that continues to skew more progressive and politically correct. It aims to refocus punk's scorn to destroy the unsustainable – the things that are slowly hurting this world, while at the same time protecting certain possessions we consent are sacred. However, at the end of the song, we start to get lazy and we call to destroy some things we should probably figure out a way to keep.


2050 COMMON SENSE

If this EP began with an intangible concern for our future, it ends with specifics. 2050 is a manifesto of sorts imagined through the lens of a dying parent imparting final words of wisdom to their young child. A little of it is simple life advice, while the remainder attempts to navigate nascent moral territory. The song ends by offering up a little perspective noting that even widely accepted notions will eventually change, underscoring the benefit of listening to your conscience rather than what everyone else says.