THE FLAMING LIPS release their new album THE TERROR today; It is a very different album for THE LIPS and one that might benefit from explanation. Click here to view Wayne’s point of view. In honor of the album, we have a brand new T-shirt design available via THE LIPS Official Store now. This brand new LIPS T-shirt features the beautiful Wayne Coyne along with the credo “Peace and Punk Rock,” printed on an Alternative Apparel Destroyed 100% Cotton T-Shirt. In other words, this is high-end stuff. Link into their world here www.flaminglips.com
Just a reminder: the new albumis available as a special Direct To Consumer, Limited-Edition Silver Vinyl double-LP set, housed in a two-pocket gatefold jacket with printed sleeves as well as the CD edition. Those who have pre-ordered either edition also receive a pair of non-album instant download tracks and should receive their packages beginning today.
Also viewable now, is the first in a series of new, live video clips featuring songs from the album. First in the series is “Try To Explain.” This is a particularly beautiful piece of cinematography and sonically stunning mix of the song. Click here to view. More to follow soon.
As you know, THE TERROR is THE LIPS’ thirteenth studio album and was produced by long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann and THE FLAMING LIPS and recorded at Tarbox Road Studios in Fredonia, NY and at Pink Floor Studios in Oklahoma City, OK. Much has already been said about the new album. Suffice to say that it is a bold and expressive journey that has evolved over THE LIPS’ nearly 30-year tended garden of sonic delights that ebbs and flows with extraordinary splashes of light and shade, pleasure and pain, sadness and hope, and the knowledge that to expect the unexpected is half the fun of THE LIPS experience.
Rolling Stone’s David Fricke had this to say:
“Before the confetti cannons and sci-fi Day-Glo-pop operettas, the Flaming Lips made great acid-nightmare rock records about the high cost of transcendence. The Terror is that darkness returned: a gripping middle-age-mystic crisis with rude, cosmic-German electronics crowding Wayne Coyne’s tremulous boy-explorer voice. The beauty is fleeting but piquant. A choral glow cuts past the clatter and seizures in “Look . . . The Sun Is Rising” and the title song. More relentless and compelling is the honesty running through the scarred throb and spaced-boogie convulsions in “You Lust” and “Always There . . . In Our Hearts”: Heaven, on Earth or anywhere else, doesn’t come easy.” – 4 out of 5 Stars
Spin summed up their experience as such: “It all feels like one 60-minute song, which is a virtue… But its true strength is a creeping sense of inevitability. These songs ooze forth like a slit wrist or that evil mud from Creepshow 2: They cannot be stopped, and before you know it, you’re consumed. Coyne deserves all the toys he can get.” – 9 out of 10
Watch THE FLAMING LIPS perform “Look…The Sun Is Rising” live on the Late Show with David Letterman here.
Track listing:
Look…The Sun Is Rising
Be Free, A Way
Try To Explain
You Lust
The Terror
You Are Alone
Butterfly, How Long It Takes To Die
Turning Violent
Always There…In Our Hearts
