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Sun, 16 Apr 2006 is the title of the latest album from everyone's favorite Okie band, The Flaming Lips. It's great, especially in the way that the various songs on the album throw back to different periods in their earlier work. For example, track 1, "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song," rekindles images of Clouds Taste Metallic (Kim's Watermelon Gun, maybe?), and some other tracks go back even further. There's also a very Beck opening to the second track, "Free Radicals." In looking back to their earlier work, however, the Lips don't ignore the polished, tight sound that they've developed over their last few albums. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was an achievement for them in terms of how "professional" it sounded while retaining the essence of Lips, but it was also made of altogether different stuff than, e.g., Finally, the Punk Rockers are Taking Acid. That they've been able to leverage their technical development and simultaneously return to their, what, youthful? roots is both impressive and really freaking cool. I'd totally recommend buying this album ASAP. I'm also going to go out and buy the 5.1 DVD version of it when it comes out (to go along with the 5.1 versions of Yoshimi and The Soft Bulletin, both of which I highly recommend). It's on Lapnap and positron, so you can test drive it first, but dudes, please buy this one. It's just that damn good. Also of note: today I think I broke my finger playing some football with Mike and Matt (maybe it's just jammed, but fuck is it swollen). I know you wanted to know that. Oh yeah, and Beck is going to be in town on the 20th of June. I'm gonna get tix, so if anyone wants to make the trek down and watch, lemme know and I'll pick one up for you. The man puts on a helluva show. [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] writebacks (add one you lazy bastard!)post a comment: |
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