When an egg and a sperm meet, the clock starts. I’m constantly looking at them thinking where did the time go. You kind of gauge your age looking at your children. Personally, having children has made me become more aware of time than any other point in my life. He and his wife are creating life together starting the clock in a metaphorical sense and a literal sense. Clock maker is a reference to there being a grand designer of all things living or AKA god. Her love is the only thing that keeps him going and helps him cope with not being there for them. A success that has in many ways pulled him away from what he wants to be more than anything, a husband and a father. How can you hate something that has shown so much love to someone else and is being given back to you unconditionally? In interviews he credits his wife many times with pushing him to follow his passion which resulted in his success. This is by far the most powerful line of the whole song. He also says “some days I hate everything I am but your love holds a mirror to me. I believe he is talking about being the best dad and husband in the world that he has to now live in. “I want to make babies til you say you’re through”.
Obviously he is referencing his wife and being home with her enjoying life together. The song starts out with him saying “I want to grow old with you in the Mountain View”. I know, I know, this is out there but hear me out. This may be far fetched but my interpretation of this is he is referencing his children as the clocks. But sometimes happy accidents gain meaning long after they’ve been created because they simply fall in line with the concept regardless of intent. The thunderous guitar riff powering Best Clockmaker on Mars makes room in the bridge section for a keening synthesizer part right out of Dr. Whether all of that is intentional or not is up to you. It’s also the fourth planet and this is his fourth album. Mars is the planet of war and he’s internally warring with doing what he loves while simultaneously missing those he loves. As an artist, Sturgill isn’t taking himself so seriously as to think he’s the first guy to do any of this or have any of these internal issues with being away from his family. He just takes a broken clock and makes it work/better. A clockmaker doesn’t actually make clocks. The clockmaker reference is an allusion to double-talk of the album’s recurring theme (there’s nothing new/everything has already been done). But he can’t do that cause he’s gotta work. SHOULD I BUY, STREAM OR STEAL IT? You have to support this - if only so he can make an album that’s even more insane next time.I think it means he loves his wife and wishes they could just spend all of their time together with their kids and enjoy each other’s company. But only during the violent action scenes.
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IF THIS ALBUM WERE A TV SHOW SOUNDTRACK, WHAT SHOW WOULD IT GO WITH? Westworld.
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No matter the sound or the style, Simpson clearly hasn’t forgotten how to write a strong hook or a memorable song.
HOW OFTEN WILL I LISTEN TO THIS? Strange as it is, it’s also strangely compelling. WHAT WILL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY SAY? ‘Hey, didn’t Neil Young make an album sorta like this once called Trans? How did that work out for him?’ WHAT ARE THE BEST SONGS? The chugging Sing Along the robo-disco romp A Good Look the metallic Best Clockmaker on Mars the electro-rockabilly raveup Last Man Standing the spacey Mercury in Retrograde and the psychedelic Fastest Horse in Town. WHAT 10 WORDS DESCRIBE IT? Electronic, aggressive, risky, fuzzy, restless, audacious, invigorated, rebellious, unpredictable, danceable. HOW SHOULD I LISTEN TO IT? While watching the movie. Or maybe It’s So Crazy It Just Might Work. WHAT WOULD BE A BETTER TITLE FOR THIS ALBUM? Does Not Compute. Though he sounds best when he hews closer to a southern synth-boogie reminiscent of ’80s ZZ Top instead of trying to approximate the dry-ice cool more representative of the genre. Turns out that despite his country roots, Simpson can crank up and rock out with the best of them. WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE? As weird as you expect. Oh, and its release was also accompanied by a dystopian anime film that was loosely inspired by Akira Kruosawa’s samurai classic Yojimbo and is now playing on Netflix. WHAT IS THIS? His fourth full-length and latest sonic and stylistic left turn: A self-described “sleazy synth-rock dance record” that supposedly takes its musical cues from British popsters La Roux. W HO IS HE? The iconoclastic American alt-country singer-songwriter who broke through to the mainstream with 2014’s druggy Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, and went on win the Best Country Album Grammy with his orchestrated 2016 concept disc A Sailor’s Guide to Earth.
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