Electrodactyl's record is available for free download at FutureKomp.net. Here's what humans are saying about it:
Forget about Harrison Ford stalking and making love to cyborgs in a dystopian future, Electrodactyl's eponymous and inaugural release is real electro-noir. Nightcycle, the first single from the record, is Bruce Lee resurrected from a rain soaked grave, fully armed with time-traveling prowess, handing out vigilante justice on the farthest-flung edges of the universe.
In Electrodactyl's future ghetto, all speech is sucked through a black hole and pumped back to earth through an industrial-sized vocoder located somewhere in the armpit of the states. Electrodactyl records and surrounds the resulting garble with the sounds of dying stars and hominids hammering granite monoliths with the tibias of vanquished opponents.
The mood of the album fluctuates from track to track. Stranger Danger morphs from a harmless space jingle to a mustached predator piloting a space jalopy slowly past a middle school. We hear "you win" at the track's closing. I, for one, don't believe it.
The Moons of Saturn is either the day-dreamed hallucinations of a comic book store clerk or a recounting of one of Philip K. Dick's meth-fueled delusions. A calm wave of ambience ripples beneath Electrodactyl's vocoded prose until the drums below crest and break.
Only one question remains: Is there any significance to the fact that Electrodactyl is just one letter removed from Electrodactyly, also known as Karsch-Neugebauer Syndrome, a rare congenital deformity of the hands and feet?
Reviewed by Mark Brown
Santa Maria Times, CA
10-29-09
Electrodactyl ascended from the frozen bedrock of the
northeastern southwest in the winter of 2007. Sporting denim
uniforms and cadmium sulfide sunglasses, the duo began
making music on discarded synths and borrowed rhythm
machines between accepting anonymous calls from New York City
pay phones. Electrodactyl eventually learned to speak,
spinning anachronistic tales of ancient electronic forests
and animal addiction to natural elements that cannot be found
in the periodic table. Electrodactyl's first album represents
three years of fledgling flight and discovery of the past
through reliving the future.