This Gigantic Robot Kills

Lars worked with many diverse and eclectic artists for this album.

“True Player for Real” sees him teaming up with “Weird Al” Yankovic on the accordion and Brendan B. Brown of Wheatus on vocals and guitar, while the title track is a ska throw-back featuring the MC Bat Commander from the Aquabats that mourns the death of a ska generation to the hands of the bratty kids from the Hills.

“Hey There Ophelia” returns to Lars’s retelling of classic works, built around a Therapy? interpolation featuring Brett Anderson from the Donnas and Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship, all of whom work together to retell the classic Shakespearean tale of Hamlet.

On “O.G. Original Gamer”, Lars teams up with the “godfather of nerdcore hip-hop” MC Frontalot, telling a surprising tale of a father who pushed his kid into becoming a world class gamer, as the child rebels and would rather mow the lawn and clean his room.

“No Logo” takes an interpolation of Fugazi’s “Waiting Room”, as Lars teams up with Nova Scotia’s Jesse Dangerously, railing against people who claim to be corporate revolutionaries but by the poster board for protesting at Wall Mart.

On “Beating Guitar Hero Doesn’t Make You Jimmy Page”, Lars teams up with Nerf Herder frontman Perry Grip, to comment on the notion that video games like Guitar Hero take kids away from playing in bands and actually learning their instruments. True Guitar Hero Paul Gilbert of Mr. Big joins Lars and Parry on this track.