I recently interviewed Devo’s head mutant Mark Mothersbaugh about his busily devolved life. Lately, it includes taking Devo on tour to perform full-album concerts of its recently reissued classics Are We Not Men? and Freedom of Choice.
But it also includes crafting up deranged rugs for your home and mine, where a homosexual cyclops ponders the walk of shame, and worse. The peculiar design means it is unlikely to worry other designers who are competing in the contemporary rug market. However, if you like it, get one for your kids! For the office! But scan my chat and gallery on Wired first.
Devo’s Mutant Music Returns, This Time With Weirdo Rugs
If you’re looking for new Devo sonics, don’t be alarmed by this look backward: Next up is a new record in 2010 featuring, as Mothersbaugh explained, “a number of great minds to help bring form to our recordings, some doing subtle remixes, others attacking the songs with the same intensity that we re-interpreted the Rolling Stones’ ‘Satisfaction‘ back in 1974.”
Also on tap for next year: Another Devo tour with a new multimedia show that sounds like it evolved out of A Clockwork Orange’s Ludovico technique.
“We will be subjecting spuds to a New World Order brand of Devo that will introduce unfamiliar territory,” Mothersbaugh said. “But for the truly devoted, these full-album shows are like revisiting your favorite childhood blanket. For the only slightly initiated, they will act as a primer to explain why de-evolution is real.”
But hasn’t the outstanding success of Devo, to say nothing of our own survival of a bizarro 20th century, proved that humans are getting pretty good at this evolution thing? Aren’t we leaping into the 21st century, rather than just continuing to take one step forward while taking two steps back?
“Definitely not,” Mothersbaugh said. “Thirty-five years later, de-evolution seems even more a part of our daily reality than ever. There is more misinformation, humans have overrun the planet, and it is not nuclear bombs we must fear, but the human mind. Or lack of it. Devo has played its part in alerting humans to the truth about de-evolution, that things are falling apart faster than we predicted.”
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