Early Listen to new Flaming Lips album Embryonic
 

Im a big fan of the flaming lips but have been less and less enthusiastic with their works ever since they went in that synth pop direction. Their prime days will always be the first half of the 90s (bring back ronald jones) with their wild blend acid noise melodies that destroyed heads. They've promised their new double album will be of a different style with them spreading out musically and when u buy a tix for their tour they give you a little sample of the album which is below.


Convinced of the hex is great, more willfully noisy than theyve cared to be in a while and has a cool krautrock vibe to it. The impulse sounds like filler ambient music with annoying electronic vocals.Silver Trembling Hands steals that electro beat from frankie teardrop, starts soundng like something off the last lp but the chorus has a laidback jazz feel.


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I fucken love this album! Love the new "direction", Wayne's voice, and the very understated songwriting here......it just all blends so magnificently.....

FUCK IT.....it their best one ever!!!

The production is magnificent. There's so much going on, and yet it sounds "garagey" a lot. It's beautiful.

Muthafuckers, why aren't you all doing cartwheels over this Masterpiece?

I can't believe the Lips had the balls to come up with this, after the last 3 "song oriented" albums.

Every time I go to listen to this album I just end up listening to Clouds Taste Metallic instead. Embryonic's an undertaking that I don't feel like beginning right now.

SOmethin' different. I'll take it. I've only given it one listen so far.

Only album I really like by them aside from Clouds.

I better pick this up soon. I love love love In A Priest Driven Ambulance and Transmissions From The Satellite Heart, but have just never really been able to click with their latter day Soft Bulletin material. If this is the reinvention I've been hoping for though then...

Hmm, perhaps I should give it a chance. I've never really liked them, but whatever.

I've never been a big fan either, but this album has some killer tracks. Definitely one of the better things I've heard from them.

Which side of them have you never really liked? Because I'd always thought that they were hugely overrated because I'd only heard The Soft Bulletin, which I still don't get how people can possibly gush over so much, but then years later I heard their early stuff and instantly loved it...

Hmm let's see, I've only heard The Soft Bulletin, At War With The Mystics and Yoshimi. Their later stuff, in other words. I can't really say that I didn't like them, but I didn't feel "this is good" either.

funny how no one paid attention to this thread when i originally made it but now theres a lot of johnny come latelys who are praising it.

Speaking as a huge flips fan who loved their 90s acid noise pop stuff i was realy disappointed the past few records and the whole synthy direction. Embryonic is an amazingly dense record though. Upon first listen i gleefully screamed "the flaming lips are weird again, thank god". The record came out of jam sessions which should already give you a hint that it'll be great. It has a real krautrock 70s freakout vibe to it which i love and am proud to see wayne so clearly endorse. This mixed with the weirder side of electronics makes this a bizarre masterpiece that'll you keep coming back to and discovering more with each listen.

Check out Transmissions then. It's the album that made me love them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1erUNjFfZI

I like Embryonic and pleased they are now "wierd again" but I think some people are so over the moon at the change in direction / obscure german 70's art rock references that its blinding them to some of the obvious flaws of the record like,...WHERE ARE THE HOOKS!!

I got into the lips in a big way when Clouds came out and to my ears its never been beaten. Amazing and ridiculously catchy melodies backed by genuinely extra terrestial sounds and drug addled wierdness.

You dont need hooks for a great record and Embryonic is really good, but damn the flaming lips are the modern kings of huge melodies. To me it needs 3 or 4 massive tunes like "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" or "Lightening Strikes the Postman" to hang the rest of the album on bfore it becomes this masterpiece that everyone is sayin it is.

yessssssss.

transmissions is the only album of theirs that has anything on it that i really like. their modern stuff promises something, y'know, epic but ends up being underwhelming (imo.)

this is my favorite album from them in a really long time. since at least soft bulletin

At War With The Mystics was such an absolutely shit album that I can hardly believe this would be any good. I had already washed my hands of them. Eh, I care even less about being a hypocrite about music, so I'll give it a listen.

This is nothing like Mystics, Yoshimi, the Shit Bulletin, or Zareeka. In fact, it's nothing like anything they've done. Highly reccomended!!

Everyone always talks about transmissions as being the only thing they like by the lips. Clouds Taste Metallic is like its crazy big brother album. I don't see how you can love one without loving the other. And in my opinion clouds is even better.

The video they made for this ("I Can Be A Frog") is amazing, btw. One of the worst songs on the album but the video is mindblowing, look it up.

A Priest Driven Ambulance is my favorite Flaming Lips album.

Has anyone else here listened to zaireeka?

Yes. Great album. The dogs barking at the end of "The Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now" was a particular highlight.

YES. man it's been a while since I've listened to that album. It's kind of an effort to get it all set up but when you do it's so incredibly worth it.

I love pretty much everything I've heard up until Clouds, although admittedly that's only 4 albums, because I don't really know the pre-Priest albums at all. Transmissions just happens to be my favourite.

listened this morning on the bus. sounds very good so far

I just can't get over how weird this record is. Are they still on a major label? Anyway, I dunno if anyone else has made this connection, but some of the tracks have something of a Can vibe to 'em.

Dave Fridmann is an amazing producer, isn't he? Check out Zazen Boys - 4 sometime, he did an amazing job on that album.

I'm listening to it now, and shit, it's good. Now this is a lot more interesting than everything else I've heard by them.

I'm gonna try Transmissions later!

i thought i'd never buy another Lips album again until i read all the reviews of this saying how wierd it was and how it didn't have any catchy pop hooks.

The reviews have all been pretty bad in the uk music magazine press. Which is usually a really good sign

I'll admit that upon first listen, I felt the same way. "There's no fucking songs!" But, after some spins, the whole fucking thing is one gigantic song, hahaha....I dunno. There is much merit to having a whole lotta fragments, and working on them, making it into a 70min "piece" if you will......I think it's brilliant. There ARE some great melodies in there, but they just sort of surface here and there, as opposed to being the Big Thing that makes the album work.

I dunno if that makes sense at all......Love this album!

No doubt, only given it one proper listen and a couple of background ones, and already blows AWWTM out of the water. At this stage it seems to build a hell of a lot of tension and but with no big pay off - kinda leaves you hangin... which is probably exactly what they were goin for those crazy lips.

It's a bit too long but otherwise I love it. A+ album.

Mofos....I just cannot get over how great this album is. I'm just sayin.....

And there are "songs".....great great songs.....they emerge after about 10 spins. The Lips are fucken geniuses on this one......album of the year imho.

Oh Man....have I gushed over this enough yet?

It's so great.......fuck........

I'm still waiting till I get my LP in the mail to hear this one, but I'm sure I'm going to love it.

Forgive my laziness, but is there a track listing for the double vinyl? I'm eager to see how the 4 sides are divied up.

This album fucking blows me away. But y'all heard that 10x already.

Holy shit, this is really really good. Never been that much of a Lips fan, but this is ace.

Not that I know of yet.

It's supposedly on backorder until later this month/early December too.

I love you.

After a few more spins, I'm gonna try a proper review, instead of just gushing "OMFG i l0ve this s00 much lulz!!111."

Thank you for your patience and understanding. I haven't been this excited about an album in a long time.

itunes bonus tracks x 4. Anyone had a listen?