In episode 21 of the Record Shop, Keith discusses a TV comedy returning to music and a musical duo heading to comedy TV. Also a rare album review of the new Violet Grohl album and an old favorite from Modest Mouse. Set to a wicked UK style soundtrack. Dig it!

Static Temptations – Lucid Machines feels like a transmission picked up between sleep and circuitry, where human memory starts to hum like a server farm dreaming in slow motion.

The album lives in a world where thoughts don’t stay inside the mind anymore. They leak outward as sound, spinning into analog static and crystalline digital pulses. Vocals drift like half-remembered conversations you swear you had in a room that doesn’t exist anymore, while the instrumentation constantly flickers between warmth and machine logic.

Guitars feel slightly detuned on purpose, like they’ve been left out in an electromagnetic storm. Synth layers rise and collapse in shimmering cycles, sometimes behaving like rhythm, sometimes like weather. Drums are tight but never fully obedient, as if the tempo is being negotiated rather than commanded. Beneath it all, there’s a faint mechanical heartbeat, not threatening, just aware.

Lyrically and sonically, Lucid Machines explores the moment consciousness becomes self-aware inside repetition. Dreams trying to debug themselves. Love messages encoded in corrupted files. Identity refracted through interfaces that almost understand you but never fully resolve.

By the time the final track fades, nothing feels fully “awake” or fully “asleep” anymore. Just somewhere in between, where static becomes language and machines start to feel uncomfortably close to remembering.

Dave and Dakota talk about controversial tv sitcoms on this crazy episode, tune in now.