It has about as many fwends as you think of-and even some you can’t: guests like Sunbears!, Tegan and Sara, Miley Cyrus, My Morning Jacket, Black Pus, Dr. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, With A Little Help From My Fwends. Now, The Flaming Lips and fwends are at it again with a different outlook on The Beatles Sgt. You have to admire The Flaming Lips’ staying power, being around for as long as they have been they’ve put out such classics as Clouds Taste Metallic, The Soft Bulletin, and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, and on top of that the band has taken on reinterpreting classic albums such as Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, The Stone Roses’ self-titled debut, and King Crimson’s In The Court of the Crimson King. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band the greatest album of all time-for some that’s an understatement. Rolling Stone has called The Beatles Sgt.
There's no telling where the Lips will go from here, but it's almost beside the point - not just the best album of 1999, The Soft Bulletin might be the best record of the entire decade.Fire Note Says: The Flaming Lips and fwends are at it again, adding their special flavor of space bombast to a timeless classic.Īlbum Review: “It’s in the realm of the gods,” says bandleader Wayne Coyne, in an interview with Arun Rath. No longer hiding behind surreal vignettes about Jesus, zoo animals, and outer space, Coyne pours his heart and soul into each one of these tracks, poignantly exploring love, loss, and the fate of all mankind highlights like "The Spiderbite Song" and "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" are so nakedly emotional and transcendentally spiritual that it's impossible not to be moved by their beauty. (Its aims are so perversely commercial, in fact, that hit R&B remixer Peter Mokran tinkered with the cuts "Race for the Prize" and "Waitin' for a Superman" in the hopes of earning mainstream radio attention.) But what's most remarkable about The Soft Bulletin is its humanity - these are Wayne Coyne's most personal and deeply felt songs, as well as the warmest and most giving. Its multidimensional sound is positively celestial, a shape-shifting pastiche of blissful melodies, heavenly harmonies, and orchestral flourishes but for all its headphone-friendly innovations, the music is still amazingly accessible, never sacrificing popcraft in the name of radical experimentation. Though more conventional in concept and scope than Zaireeka, The Soft Bulletin clearly reflects its predecessor's expansive sonic palette. So where does a band go after releasing the most defiantly experimental record of its career? If you're the Flaming Lips, you keep rushing headlong into the unknown - The Soft Bulletin, their follow-up to the four-disc gambit Zaireeka, is in many ways their most daring work yet, a plaintively emotional, lushly symphonic pop masterpiece eons removed from the mind-warping noise of their past efforts.
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