Rating: 12
"They've Switched on The Time Machine"
Best Song: In Our Bodies, Out of Our Heads
Worst Song: Hilary's Time Machine Machine
Track Listing:
1. Drug Chart
2. In Our Bodies, Out Of Our Heads
3. Walk With Me
4. Hilary's Time Machine Machine
Wow, now this is much better. This is the April Flaming Lips music, and it's really quite good! The first three songs are great, and the fourth one is... ok, but overall it's really good! The album has this really cool drugged out feel, and the feel makes sense, as the first and second songs both make drug references in title and lyric. It's also the first Flaming Lips EP to packaged in a strange form. This one comes in, as the title suggests, in a giant 7 pound gummy skull. Inside the gummy skull is a gummy brain, and in the brain is a USB containing the music. They're quite pricey, and not sold anymore, so there is basically no way to get the music, but download it online.
Let's get into a track by track review. The EP begins with the spacey, reverb heavy "Drug Chart." The drums in this song are incredible, and Wayne's voice is quite cool in it. The lyrics, while not really decipherable, are quite good, but dark. It's not the slightest bit overlong because of the hypnotic drums, and overall, it's the perfect opener for this EP.
The next song is the fantastic, "In Our Bodies, Out of Our Heads,". It's pretty much Miles Davis fusion as interpreted by the Flaming Lips. If you didn't know, I quite like Miles Davis. Anyway, the song is mostly instrumental, with the title of the song being the only lyric popping up at the end of the song. The wah solo is definitely the highlight of the song though.
Next comes "Walk With Me," which is the first part in the 15 minute suite that closes the album. Clocking in at 6 minutes, it borders on being overlong, but subtle changes keep it interesting enough. Besides, the singing is awesome, and the drum machine, while not as good as the drums in the last two songs, is a good fit for this song.
The second and final part of the suite is called "Hilary's Time Machine Machine." Clocking in at 9 minutes, this song unfortunately falls under the category of over long in the vein of "Alan's Theremin," I like "Hilary's" a good deal better than "Alan's" though. All the song really is though is a sped up Fetus's heartbeat in the right channel, an acoustic strumming in the left channel, occasional keyboards, and some mumbling in the center of the channels. It is literally the same idea for 9 minutes, but it's so much softer, and less annoying than "Alan's" so I do like it. It's not the ideal way to end the album, but they could do much worse.
Overall, this is the best EP they've done in the 2011 catalog so far. Go download it today, as it's really worth it.
Let's get into a track by track review. The EP begins with the spacey, reverb heavy "Drug Chart." The drums in this song are incredible, and Wayne's voice is quite cool in it. The lyrics, while not really decipherable, are quite good, but dark. It's not the slightest bit overlong because of the hypnotic drums, and overall, it's the perfect opener for this EP.
The next song is the fantastic, "In Our Bodies, Out of Our Heads,". It's pretty much Miles Davis fusion as interpreted by the Flaming Lips. If you didn't know, I quite like Miles Davis. Anyway, the song is mostly instrumental, with the title of the song being the only lyric popping up at the end of the song. The wah solo is definitely the highlight of the song though.
Next comes "Walk With Me," which is the first part in the 15 minute suite that closes the album. Clocking in at 6 minutes, it borders on being overlong, but subtle changes keep it interesting enough. Besides, the singing is awesome, and the drum machine, while not as good as the drums in the last two songs, is a good fit for this song.
The second and final part of the suite is called "Hilary's Time Machine Machine." Clocking in at 9 minutes, this song unfortunately falls under the category of over long in the vein of "Alan's Theremin," I like "Hilary's" a good deal better than "Alan's" though. All the song really is though is a sped up Fetus's heartbeat in the right channel, an acoustic strumming in the left channel, occasional keyboards, and some mumbling in the center of the channels. It is literally the same idea for 9 minutes, but it's so much softer, and less annoying than "Alan's" so I do like it. It's not the ideal way to end the album, but they could do much worse.
Overall, this is the best EP they've done in the 2011 catalog so far. Go download it today, as it's really worth it.
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