The Flaming Lips are a space rock band with roots in punk and alternative. This is a band who brought fourth a quadruple-album with four CDs featuring different parts of the same songs, intended to be played simultaneously. The band who conducted the 'parking lot experiments', in which they gave 40 volunteers cassettes to be played in their car in a crowded parking lot, and the 'boombox' experiment, similar to the parking lot but where they were actually 'conducted' (volume up/down, channel l/r, etc).
This time, they release their first album with no true singles since 1999's "the Soft Bulletin". This album screams at the listener to show his or her undivided attention, during the quiet bits and the loud bits. It also demands constant replays, and with these replays the listener can discern the more commercial songs (Karen O's spotlight "I Can Be A Frog" and MGMT's featuring "Worm Mountain) against the buried, musical brilliance ("If", "Watching the Planets").
Led by frontman Wayne Coyne, co-founding multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd and longtime member Michael Ivins, with new member Kliph Scurlock on drums at live shows, the Lips really do present a true musical masterpiece, original and unrivalled by anything released within the last year.
10/10.
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