Ahead of The Flaming Lips' April 4 return to the road, we're looking back on the evolution of one of popular music’s most consistently innovative bands.
track “The Gash” where Wayne Coyne delivers what could be taken as his mission statement as a songwriter and observer of humanity’s place in the universe. While the tune conjures the feeling of one of Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir’s songs of praise if they had been drinking dosed punch, the multilayered chorus subsides as Coyne asks a timid question from the congregation.
With its bombastic drums and broken, symphony-sampled keyboard line, the anthemic opener “Race For The Prize” sets the album’s tone, proving that their efforts to go off the deep end with theirboombox experiments only put the band’s pop ambitions in widescreen format. The album’s palette is all at once joyful, sorrowful and anxious, as Coyne was inspired to write the majority of the material after the passing of his father.
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