Add N To (X)'s "The March Of Pure Mathematical Evil That Ends And Results In War" is ace. For me, this song always evokes weird imaginary scenes of 70's style sci-fi TV robots forming a jam band or something. At the outset of the song, the "guitarist" (and I use the term loosely) stumbles upon a catchy little riff while playing whatever the hell a 70's style sci-fi TV robot would play in order to create such goofy analog synth sounds. From there, his mechanized cohorts join in, establishing a rhythm section with some methodical, low-key drums, rudimentary bass, and a perpetual squeaking noise quite obviously fashioned by little Johnny Robot, who has somehow been duped into wiping down the inside of the front window when the stain, unfortunately, is on the outside. This continues on and on, almost mind-numbingly so, with only a few slight variations throughout. Despite maintaining an enduring repetitiveness that only a machine could love, the song develops into a sort of lazy epic, inspiring in it's simplicity, yet still utterly confusing, as it's difficult to truly understand what it is exactly that they, the robots, love about it so much. Somewhere halfway through, we get a spoken word bit (French?) that just SOUNDS so completely irrelevant that you just know the robots are dicking around now. This lapse into "experimentalism" continues on to the end of the song, where the robots attempt to inject some honest-to-God human emotion (!) through the most customary means possible. They add the good old organic sound of the flute, which spasms in and out of the music as if they know it belongs but are unsure of how it's supposed to be implemented. Best of all, the song closes with the most pathetically weak pseudo synth choir you will ever hear in your life. Incredibly lame, while at the same time charming, because shucks, those kooky robots sure did try their darndest.
