Embryonic
The Flaming Lips
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Convinced of the Hex | The Flaming Lips | 3:54 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Sparrow Looks Up At the Machine | The Flaming Lips | 4:10 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Evil | The Flaming Lips | 5:38 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Aquarius Sabotage | The Flaming Lips | 2:10 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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See the Leaves | The Flaming Lips | 4:24 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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If | The Flaming Lips | 2:04 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Gemini Syringes | The Flaming Lips | 3:41 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Your Bats | The Flaming Lips | 2:34 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Powerless | The Flaming Lips | 6:57 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Ego's Last Stand | The Flaming Lips | 5:39 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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I Can Be a Frog | The Flaming Lips | 2:14 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Sagittarius Silver Announcement | The Flaming Lips | 2:58 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Worm Mountain | The Flaming Lips | 5:21 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Scorpio Sword | The Flaming Lips | 2:01 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Impulse | The Flaming Lips | 4:06 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Silver Trembling Hands | The Flaming Lips | 3:58 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast | The Flaming Lips | 3:44 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Watching the Planets | The Flaming Lips | 5:16 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Songs |
iTunes Review
The Flaming Lips like challenges. They like to take noises and found sound, electronically manipulated instrumentation and sonically altered vocals, and find the song after the damage is done. Their film Christmas On Mars included some of the band’s most atmospheric and formless songwriting and it’s from this starting point that Embryonic begins its creation. The album’s title was chosen since Lips leader Wayne Coyne wished to keep the songs and sounds in their earliest stages before too much thinking and development would alter their initial inspirations. The sounds are occasionally abrasive and ugly (“Convinced of the Hex”). Tunes vary in scope, with the deep ‘70s funk of “See the Leaves,” or pop melodies altered for great effect (“Evil”) with flashes of hazy innocence (“If”). Five tunes are abbreviated pieces named from Zodiac signs (“Aquarius Sabotage,” “Gemini Syringes”). “Your Bats,” “Powerless,” “Silver Trembling Hands” near conventional songwriting, but are sonically altered to the point of near obliteration. “Watching the Planets” ends things with a final crunch. And a cosmic concept hides under the tough, spacey pieces of instrumental wreckage.
Customer Reviews
Right move, for sure
I am one of the Lips' longest-running fans. I used to see them hanging around Norman at Shadowplay Records. I saw them open up for The Replacements in OKC back in 1987. I have their first two LP's, the rare EP on purple swirl vinyl and Hear It Is on rare white vinyl. I remember many shows when the entire band would wrap themselves in Christmas lights and those would be the only lights on in the club. Trippy. They are a true success story. That being said, I have been concerned about the direction of their last couple of albums. Those albums are good in their own way, but Embryonic is the Lips' sound I fell for all those years ago. I think this is a smart move for them. No more Kraft dressing commercials and schmoozing with low-life Oklahoma legislators. A very good return to form in my opinion.
One of the best of the year...
Up there with Merriweather Post Pavillion and Veckatimest. A dark, sprawling, uplifting, gorgeous meditation on life and death, light and dark, love and hate. Powerful stuff.
Fantastic
First of all, I have not listened to all of the Lips albums and I listen to the Lips when I'm SOBER. I adore Yoshimi, Soft Bulliten, and a couple songs off Zaireeka. At War With The Mystics was rather dissappointing in my opinion, but hey, that's just me. I haven't listened to any of their older albums (just haven't gotten around to them). I also don't know Pink Floyd, so I won't even comment on the similarities. That being said, I love this album. If you're familiar with the Lips, picture the dirty songwriting/recording concept of Soft Bulliten put together with some of the awesome sounds of Yoshimi and, finally, worked in amongst the brutality of Zaireeka: you now know Embryonic. If you don't know Lips, to be perfectly honest, this may not be the best album to buy. This is not an average pop-album. According to an NPR interview, this whole CD evolved from a series of jams and you can hear it: There isn't a strict sense of beat in some places (which can be very disorienting if you're not used to it), there's a lot raw-ness, and an emphasis on sounds/instrumental bits. If you can open yourself up a little, I'm sure you'll adore this album just as I do.
Biography
Formed: 1983 in Oklahoma City, OK
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
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- $10.99
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Rock, Adult Alternative, Psychedelic, Prog-Rock/Art Rock
- Released: Oct 09, 2009
- ℗ 2009 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
