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The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (Warner)
The fabulous furry freaks return with a bunch of fwends to fool around on an album that is predictably unpredictable.
The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends was originally released on Record Store Day and features the Oklahoma outfit making a heavy racket with a roster of special guests ranging from pop-tart Kesha to fellow weirdo Yoko Oho. The album continues the noisy psychedelic experimentation of the Lips' last full-length, Embryonic, with a barrage of fuzz-pedals and out-of-this-world electronic effects. It's a noisy trip, man, but they don't forget to allow some quieter moments to slip in such as the jangly beginning of I'm Working At NASA on Acid (with Lightning Bolt), the Floydian pastoral offering of Ashes in the Air (which even manages to make Bon Iver sound interesting) and a kaleidoscopic 10-minute version of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face with Erykah Badu.
Freak outs and unexpected turns are plentiful: Supermoon Makes Me Want to Pee (with Prefuse 73) and the fuzz-bomb of You, Man? Human??? (with Nick Cave) are two highlights. Not everything works, but it's a wild ride that gains momentum with every listen. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
-- RW
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 1, 2012 G4
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