This is the title track of Damon Albarn's debut solo album. Recorded in 2013 at the Blur frontman's West London studio 13, Everyday Robots was produced by XL Recordings head Richard Russell. According to the press release, "The songs' subject matter is more directly personal than before and is inspired by Albarn's experiences from early childhood to now, including the trappings of our modern existence, computer games, mobile phones and nature versus technology."
Albarn came up with this song while stuck in a traffic jam in California. He explained to XFM's John Kennedy. "I was just watching everyone around me and everyone is so lost in their little worlds: on the telephone, listening to music."
One of the verses begins with the lyric, "Everyday Robots just touch thumbs," which Albarn admitted to Kennedy is his vision of years to come. "I always like to sing to the future and imagine it, I've always done that," he said. "I remember when I wrote 'The Universal' it was just when the idea of satellites were really fresh, and the lottery and everything, and now it's just such a part of everyone's reality." "It's not a direct vision of the future it's just you feel that's what's going to happen," he added. "I like the idea of, in the future, we've only got thumbs. I don't like it, actually, it terrifies me."
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