Servotron serves up a robotic masterpiece

Servotron

No Room For Humans
Amphetamine Reptile

Think Man or Astro-Man?, if they always sang, and you get a pretty good idea of what Servotron sounds like: Surfy electronic music with mechanically inclined human voices. Combine that with the concept of every song's narrator being a robot and you've got an album named "No Room For Humans."

As you might expect, the general tone of the album is hostile towards us Homo sapiens. Lines pop up like "Serve us or die," "Match metal to man the machine lives" and "Today is your birthday, we are going to kill you." Hey, as long as we don't have a robotic rebellion, it's all pretty much fun.

Then there's the ode to the syndicated show "Small Wonder" titled "I Am Not A (Voice Activated Child Identicon)." Anyone who remembers the cheaply produced sci-fi show from the '80s will appreciate lines like "Harriet terminated Harriet shall die never to find out what is inside."

The words slip by quickly in more or less flat robot inflections and are very entertaining. The music will shake your internal organs with Jetsons Armageddon party style. Serve them or die!

- Ted Watts

11-13-96

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