isn’t such a dramatic departure. The record mostly sloshes around in the kaleidoscope-eyed orchestral pop that has been this band’s hallmark since. There are moments of genuine melancholy elegance, such as the ambling psychedelia of “Mother, Please Don’t Be Sad,” in which a deceased narrator consoles his own mother as he lays dead, or “Watching the Lightbugs Glow,” a downbeat “Great Gig in the Sky” homage starring Kacey Musgraves’ humming instead of Clare Torry’s wailing.
There is also a more pronounced country influence. Musgraves returns to duet with Coyne on “Flowers of Neptune 6,” a sighing psychedelic gem, as well as on an ominous crime vignette called “God and the Policeman.” Steven Drozd’s harmonies and melodic flourishes are as buoyant as ever, and Coyne’s familial mood lends the album a sense of unexpected intimacy.starts to fall off an American cliff.
This theme does connect to Coyne’s 1970s youth, but the singer’s nostalgic mood might seem more revelatory if it weren’t enveloped in inane musical decisions, such as the plodding beats and farm animal sounds that emerge in “You n Me Sellin’ Weed.” Such indulgences are cringey enough to make you question whetherreally is the mind-melting masterpiece you remember, or if you were just an impressionable college freshman when you first heard it.
What’s disappointing is that a well-crafted Flaming Lips country album could have been pretty great, or at least an appealing curveball. The Lipssoundtrack , or “Enthusiasm For Life Defeats Internal Existential Fear,” a gorgeous gem from the soundtrack to 2005 rockumentary, most of which involve Musgraves, grasp at that sort of understated beauty. But these days, understating things doesn’t much seem to be The Flaming Lips’ mission.
zzzzaaaacccchhh Yeah was unfortunately dissapointing for me too. :/.
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