Sean Lennon Reveals Claypool Lennon Delirium’s 2026 Return With New Concept Double Album
Les Claypool has been hitting the road hard with Primus over the past year since the band recruited new drummer John Hoffman, who joined in late 2024 after winning the Interstellar Drum Derby. However, it looks like one of his other projects will be heating up for 2025.
In a new interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Sean Lennon revealed that the Claypool Lennon Delirium will be releasing a new album in 2026 called The Great Parrot Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy. It will be the band’s third full-length studio effort and their first double album.
“And it’s a concept album, too,” Lennon added. “It’s actually about the paperclip dilemma. The paperclip dilemma is something in computer science. The idea is with AI or some highly advanced computer system, if you gave it the job of making as many paper clips as possible, most efficiently as possible, it could wind up going out of control and turning the entire earth into paper clips, or melting human beings into paper clips and you couldn’t stop it because it would be too powerful. So the idea is you have to be careful how we program these devices. So it’s based on that.”
Watch Lennon’s full interview here:
They’ll also be going on tour in July, though he did not reveal a full itinerary. The Claypool Lennon Delirium has not performed since January 2020 on the Jam Cruise, although Lennon joined Claypool in 2023 for his Colonel Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade tour.
Check out their three-song set from The Current in 2019:
We’ll keep you updated with details as they become available.
In his time with No Treble, Kevin has met hundreds of amazing bassists and interviewed icons like Jack Casady, Victor Wooten, Les Claypool, Marcus Miller, and more. He's a gigging bassist performing jazz in Northern Virginia and bluegrass with The Plate Scrapers up and down the East Coast. Kevin appreciates all genres of music, from R&B to metal and everything in between. Connect with Kevin on Facebook and check his performance schedule on his website.
