“Understated is not a word readily associated with The Flaming Lips. There’s more than three decades’ worth of evidence to back up that assertion, but let’s look at their recent endeavours: after 2013’s ‘The Terror’, a vibrant exercise in stereoscopic psychedelia, their last full-length release was ‘With a Little Help from My Fwends’ a year later, on which they covered ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts ”
“Miley Cyrus only appears once on the Flaming Lips’ claustrophobic new full-length, but the record wouldn’t sound the way it does without her presence in their lives.”
“Glancing at Wayne Coyne’s psych rock CV, you’d think he was trying to throw the interview. Previous employment? Human hamster. Massive-handed romantic. Nun puppeteer. Nudism advisor to Miley Cyrus. Referee of numerous dance-offs between aliens and Santas. Giant psychedelic vagina inspector… next! The one thing Coyne and his band of cosmic Oklahoman sound-manglers The Flaming Lips have never be”
“The Flaming Lips follow up their 2013 album The Terror with a less emotionally and texturally rich project.”
