Flame with the Lips

The Flaming Lips

Embryonic Warner Bros.

41/2 out of 5 stars

No neo-psychedilic band can continuously hit the mark as frequently as Oklahoma City’s, The Flaming Lips have. Since 1983, The Flaming Lips have released album after album of eccentric, noise-pop which is so deliciously weird, that fans are left yearning for more. Embryonic, The Flaming Lips latest installment completes the acceptably strange package the band has to offer. Much like 1997’s Zaireeka, Embryonic bundles madness and horror into one hour long space themed odyssey. The acid-rock extravaganza rawly depicts The Flaming Lips at their best, much like the success the achieved throughout the mid-90’s. Songs like Watching the Planets and See The Leaves embodies the quintessential mood that The Flaming Lips have so desperately needed in the last ten years. They have released an album that trumps their musical endeavors within the last decade. In it, the post-apocalyptic sense of reality that produced by Embryonic allows front-man Wayne Coyne to eerily talk about life and death as disposable topics. With the longevity The Flaming Lips continue to have ultimately paves the way for other experimental weirdos, whose only goal is to make oddly addicting music. Embryonic provides a nostalgic experience with their similar style to what occurred in Zaireeka and 1999’s Soft Bulleitin. Yet it also invites you to hop in the DeLorean, take it up to 80 mph and peak into a future filled with continued success and an ahead of their time musical genius.