Custard Flux - Einsteinium Delirium (2024)

This album is a little different than our first four albums. It’s no holds barred electric! The songs blend into each other on both sides of the LP to create one nuclear based relativity, with a conceptual narrative of our historical atomic madness in variable time signatures, rests and pieces. On top of that, our whole rhythm section is a Detroit gang. Let’s rock!

Einsteinium is a highly unstable element that was discovered in the debris after the first hydrogen bomb explosion. Using it in the title eventually compelled me to research and write about characters and events relating to atomic bombs, a thoroughly depressing subject. The infamous key scientist involved in developing the first atom bomb, had deep spiritual interests and in some interviews had made references to the Bhagavad Gita, which I was able to use for more positive, psychedelic inspiration.

I tried to use the imagery I’d learned about in my research somewhat abstractly because I didn’t want the lyrics to be dark and depressing, or even obvious. It’s a facticious tale. My own version of our collective insanity. My hope is that it might inspire the listener to do some research of their own on the subject of nuclear bombs to see how many have been detonated already, which is staggering. Maybe read some eye witness accounts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, if you have the stomach for it, or learn about real false alarms that have had the world on the brink of nuclear war.

The use of atomic weapons is not a thing to celebrate. The use of atomic weapons is not a thing to forget about. Atomic weapons are not a thing to be taken lightly.

A quote from Sri Ramakrishna: “Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often with human blood, destroyed civilizations, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now. But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal”. He died August 16, 1886.

This album is dedicated to our friend Mars Williams, one of the coolest cats that ever lived. R.I.P.