The Flaming Lips News: The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (2009)
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I guess I'm just going to have to face it, gone are the days when you could rely on the Flaming Lips to provide you with quirky, humorous pop songs. The new double album, Embryonic, may be the final nail in that coffin.This latest expansion of the Oklahoma group's use of electronics and programming has sucked the life out of a band whose music had once been simultaneously catchy and elegant. In it's place we get unstructured clatter ("Worm Mountain", "Convinced of the Hex") with a healthy side dish of drone ("See the Leaves", "The Sparrow Looks Up At the...

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