
What happens when you take the haunting voices of The Flaming Lips ' Wayne Coyne and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, add the off-kilter guitars that we have come to expect from both, and back it up with a marching drum line? You get "Ashes in the Air". "Ashes In The Air" is a six minute epic-because neither artist can make a song under five minutes-that combines the indecipherable with the otherworldly. While I can't say that the lyrics are going to ever make any sense to me, this is a welcome experiment that I hope to see more [...]