The Flaming Lips With Prefuse 73- The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips- The Flaming Lips With Prefuse 73

Rating: 5

"But It Slowed Down For Us"

Best Song: Heavy Star Movin'

Worst Song: Be Like That That That

Track Listing

1. Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee

2. Heavy Star Movin'

3. Be Like That That That

4. Guillermo's Bolero

     ...And they fail. The Flaming Lips finally fell behind the boundary of Experimental Music, and just turned this into a pile of Experimental Noise. And this is the bad kind of Experimental Noise. There is almost no drums to drive the album for 3/4ths of the album. For a bit of that 3/4s, the drums were not needed. But on the rest of it, the drums were needed. 

     The most ironic part? On the first song, "Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee," the drums irritate me except for one cool part that reminds me of "March of The Rotten Vegetables" from the fantastic Zaireeka. "Supermoon," is a stupid layer of noise that reminds me of fast forwarding an already bad song. The next song, is very good though. "Heavy Star Movin'" is the calmest song on the album, having an "A Machine In India, (Zaireeka)"-like drift. The vocals are really soothing and nice.

     The same can't be said for the next song. "Be Like That That That is one of the worst songs I have ever heard. It is driven by a stupid loop that sounds like a broken machine. Wayne's vocals are some of the worst he's ever done, and the bass is directionless and stupid. "Guillermo's Bolero," is basically a rewrite of "Alan's Theremin," But slightly more grating and boring, making this EP one of the worst things that the Flaming Lips did in 2011. Hopefully, the Gummy Song Fetus can redeem them, as they're alone again, not bound by the musical style of another...