The Flaming Lips - Embryonic [2009]

Country: Oklahoma, US
Style: Psychedelic Indierock, Experimental
Format: Mp3
CBR: 44.1Khz, 192Kbps.

Embryonic leans heavily on the Lips' formative 60s/70s psych-rock influence (like In a Priest Driven Ambulance's "Take Meta Mars" before it, Embryonic's formidable opener "Convinced of the Hex" grooves heavily on Can's "Mushroom"), but never before has the band recorded an album so unwaveringly sinister, or so devoid of pop-song levity. (Hell, even Zaireeka had "The Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now".) Wayne Coyne no longer assumes the role of the endearingly creaky, puppet-toting crooner. Instead, he's a world-weary fatalist describing scenes of environmental holocaust in a chillingly unaffected monotone on the rampaging "See the Leaves". Or he's a cult leader deviously summoning his minions on "Sagittarius Silver Announcement", before leading them to a fiery demise on the monstrous, stoner-metal onslaught of "Worm Mountain" (featuring fuzzbox-stomping assistance from MGMT). The atmosphere of dread reaches its fever pitch in the album's spellbinding seven-minute centerpiece "Powerless", where, over top a coolly ominous bass riff, Coyne's nervous verses yield to a Syd Barrett-on-Mandrax guitar freak out.

Track listing :

1 Convinced Of The Hex
2 The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine
3 Evil
4 Aquarius Sabotage
5 See The Leaves
6 If
7 Gemini Syringes
8 Your Bats
9 Powerless
10 The Ego's Last Stand
11 I Can Be A Frog
12 Sagittarius Silver Announcement
13 Worm Mountain
14 Scorpio Sword
15 The Impulse
16 Silver Trembling Hands
17 Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast
18 Watching The Planets

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