flaming lips - embryonic

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here is a review of the album from some random soul:



Embryonic starts with "Convinced of the Hex." What's unique about The Flaming Lips is their ability to intertwine a nice voice with strange sounds. Here you can clearly hear they used some lower quality samples infused with some higher bitrate samples layered with deeper reverbs to push his vocals further back in the mix. "See The Leaves" is filled with blips and bleeps that really make no sense and portray what the 60's psychedelic wave might sound like if it were still alive today. The lyrics suggest such even more with the leaves coming out, the grass dying and the sun coming out painting a colorful image in the head.

"Silver Trembling Hands" may be one of the most fun points The Flaming Lips' Embryonic album. With a distorted bass line, one would feel as if they're floating through space listening to his echoed voice as he sings about a girl being high, forgetting some feelings and the song makes it seem like they were the ones who were high especially when they start mentioning nature. The chorus feels majestic and captivating despite a strange story being told.

Embryonic is a much longer album, 18 tracks in total. Having that many tracks it's easy for songs to start resembling one another. While songs like "Aquarius Sabotage" are a mix of instrumental, both peaceful and clashing, songs like "Scorpio Sword" sound too much like the opener. However, the album has very atmospheric tunes as well that can enlighten a mood, calm one's soul or put them in a trance such as "Sagittarius Silver Announcement" and "Gemini Syringes," the latter a sound maybe Pink Floyd would have experimented with. "Sagittarius" sends a message that one must give in to their desires in order to find one's freedom.

The Flaming Lips' "Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast" is much like "Gemini Syringes" but offers the tone a bit more tame with a repeated line saying "This is the beginning." The album closes with "Watching the Planets" which is using a distorted percussion to set the mood. It sounds much more deranged than many of the 18 tracks on Embryonic but has a hypnotic beat that is much more enjoyable than many of the tracks on the album.

Embryonic is very psychedelic and stands out as one of The Flaming Lips best works that proves they're back to continue confusing the mind. Pick up their new album in stores October 13^th.

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