They are missing an arm or a leg, but are magnificent in their beauty (if you take the time to look for it) in their own way. They are wildly creative ideas that have not fully formed. Perhaps these are songs in their pre-natal stage. But the answer to this riddle may very well be in the title of the CD, Embryonic. There are various interludes titled after astrological signs, and other songs make allusions to looking to space for the answer. While it would be easy to write this disc off as an example of self-indulgence and pretentiousness, Coyne has some type of theme going on here. Like the opening cut, it almost sounds like an actual song. Here, "Worm Mountain," with it's marching drum sounds and militant chorus, sounds like something right out of The Wall. The Lips have always been fans of Pink Floyd, especially in terms of their over the top live shows.
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The Lips then proceed to take the listener for a joyride through the aural landscape, full of ambient sounds and moods, and space-age psychedelia that would fit right in on the next remake of Metropolis. Coyne's repetition of the line, "That's the difference between us," seems obvious. But from its jarring opening guitar note, the listener can tell right away that this is not your typical FM fare. Opening cut, "Convinced of the Hex," has the closest thing to an actual melody. Instead, Wayne Coyne and company force the listener to pay attention to the structure (or lack thereof) of the songs. There is nary a song on here that follows any type to verse/chorus rule. And then there are those who like the band's just accessible enough to make it on the radio hits, like "She Don't Use Jelly" and "Do You Realize."Įmbryonic is is firmly entrenched in former group. There are the ones who went out and bought extra CD players so that they could play all four CDs of Zaireeka simultaneously, as they were meant to be played. It’s like going into a dark room and painting on the wall.There are two sets of Flaming Lips fans. “She’s singing, screaming, making these noises,” he says. Karen launched into a six-minute menagerie of animal noises so fun that Coyne built an entire song, “I Can Be a Frog,” around it. “At the end, she said, ‘Can we do one more version where I just completely freak out the whole time?’ ” says Coyne. She was on tour in Milwaukee, so she literally phoned it in from her hotel room. “We were inspired by the electric period of Miles Davis, the era where he used all the feedbacky, freaked-out electric stuff,” says Coyne.Īfter Coyne asked Yeah Yeah Yeahs vocalist Karen O to sing on the song that would eventually conclude the album, “Watching the Planets,” they recorded her part in 45 minutes. Most band’s worried about three-minute radio-play formats don’t work this way, but it was hardly a new idea. They then took the smallest inspirational bits from these long jams and, instead of developing them further moved on to the next idea.
“If I sang stuff the guys thought was stupid, I would say, ‘We’ll try something else.’ ” I didn’t worry about it that much,” he says.
“Songwriters get too precious about their creations. This led to some ideas that worked wonderfully, and many that didn’t. “You just wanna sing whatever comes out of you.”
“You wanna work on a subconscious level of not being utterly aware of time signatures and the key things are in and musical things,” says Coyne. In brainstorming songs for the album, the band dedicated itself to free-form jams.
Indeed, “Embryonic” - which will also be released as a proper double album on vinyl - features 18 songs, many containing enough music on their own for several. “We call it a double-record because we don’t want anybody to listen to it all the way through at one time.” “It goes on for 70 minutes,” says Lips vocalist Wayne Coyne. Embryonic is an album that prompts strong love-it-or-hate-it reactions in listeners, and John (host. Unable to bear the idea of leaving anything out, the Lips wrote and recorded too much music, and they know it. In 2009, 25 years into their career, the Oklahoma-based eccentric alt-rock band The Flaming Lips released a dark, terrifying double-album that nobody could have expected when 'She Don't Use Jelly' landed them a cameo on Beverly Hills 90210. Which is why Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne is adamant in describing the band’s new release, Tuesday’s “Embryonic,” as a double-album, even though it handily fits on a single CD. “Self-indulgent” - even a whiff of the dreaded phrase turns most musicians to stone.
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