“In 1942, The US Pentecostal Church Development Department made a robot preacher to replace human preachers who were abroad in the war. All was going well until its program was bought out by a pharmaceutical company through regular software updates. They started to add sales pitches to its speech program.
After the war, the human preachers returned and the Litronix program was closed down In late 1945. The Litronix was driven out to the Nevada desert and buried in an unknown location.
Fast forward 80 years, whilst digging the new foundations of a hotel, the Litronix was discovered still awake and fully functioning. On its awakening, the Litronix started to walk in the direction of Los Angeles.
Over the past few years, living in LA, its religious and pharmaceutical programs have evolved into a more spiritual and holistic approach. Its external hard drive has downloaded more than 4500 documents on the subject of hypnosis. Government agencies and many new American business oligarchs have approached the Litronix’with job offers. The Litronix refused.
The Litronix model also started to record jingles and songs on its internal recording system.”
Welcome to the Litronix origin story. Mastermind Kevin Litrow has spent a lifetime chasing sound, stretching it, bending it, twisting it into something electric and alive. From the frantic pulse of Dance Disaster Movement to the unhinged experiments of Radar and 60 Watt Kid, his hands have shaped music like clay, always moving, never still. But in 2012, Litrow stripped it all back, carving out a singular vision—Litronix, a one-man machine built to hum, to throb, to glow in the dark.
Two records deep and a third in the works, Litronix stacks sound like strange architecture; pop structures rise and fall over analogue synth spirals, open-tuned guitars ring like half-remembered dreams, subsonic bass rumbles beneath poly-rhythmic electronic beats, and vocals glide above it all, smooth yet simmering with something just below the surface.
Now, Litronix unveils Electric Panoramic, a hypnotic hymn from their debut album One a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, set for release on May 2 via Invada Records. It crackles and gleams, a chant both soothing and unsettling, as if a PBS educational program was sent through a BBC Radiophonic Workshop time warp. Bloops and beeps swirl around poetry sharp enough to sting. It lulls, it disorients, it holds you fast in its strange and shimmering spell.
For the accompanying video, Brandon Blanks directs a fever dream in motion, a swirling vision where light fractures, the body twists, and the world flickers like an old reel on the verge of burning through. It calls to mind Peter Gabriel at his most delightfully unhinged, funneled through the prismatic chaos of Bruce Haack, Arcade Fire, and Super Furry Animals.
Sunlight bounces off the sea, waves shimmering in blinding bursts. Litrow, in a classic detective trench coat, moves in strange, ecstatic fits: half-ritual, half-reverie…caught in a loop between reality and something far less certain. Multiple exposures overlap like memory slipping through the cracks, colour bursts in dizzying kaleidoscope flashes.
The rhythm jitters, the vocals echo through corridors of sound, the beat stutters like a skipping heartbeat. It is the last moment before sleep pulls you under, when everything feels hyperreal: too bright, too vast, too electric…before drifting into a blissful, melatonin-drenched haze.
Watch the video for “Electric Panoramic” below:
One a Day Keeps The Doctor Away, an edited version of the 200 hours of recorded material, will be available digitally and on limited transparent red vinyl in gatefold sleeve. Listen to Electric Panoramic below and pre-order the album here.
Kevin Litrow’s stage performance is a spectacle that hypnotizes the spectator to either ‘think deep or dance hard.’
“Every subject has a deep meaning or a story to tell,” Litrow insists. “Invention and innovation through the minimalist tools that are given is an important value for music and art alone. Looping, if done right, is an art achieved for a special category of innovation.”
Litrow has already shared the stage and toured extensively with acts such as Egyptian Lover, Broadcast, Vinyl Williams, and many more. Ahead of the album’s release, Litronix will support BEAK> and Jon Spencer Blue Explosion across North America.
Tour Dates:
- 21 FEB The Echo, LA (supporting Jon Spencer Blues Explosion)
- 22 MAR Théâtre Fairmount, MONTREAL
- 23 MAR The Great Hall, TORONTO
- 26 MAR Tubby’s, Kingston NEW YORK
- 27 MAR Elsewhere, BROOKLYN
- 1 APR Zebulon, LOS ANGELES
- 2 APR Zebulon, LOS ANGELES
- 4 APR Numbs, SEATTLE
- 5 APR Polaris Hall, PORTLAND
- 7 APR Hollywood Theatre, VANCOUVER
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