Blog: cowsarejustfood

how would i describe the flaming lips? front man wayne coyne is a cross betwixt jesus and doc brown from back to the future. a haphazard hairy shaman leading us not into temptation, but delivering us from evil. in a giant man-sized hamster ball. musically they're a heady mix somewhere between religion and science, as much studio as instrument, as much sky as earth. embryonic is another musical paradigm shift from the lips, a steady transmogrification from noisy psyche rock to swooning technicolour pop to this, which references everything from miles davis' bitches brew to can, skip spence, [...]

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