The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips 2011: Gummy Song Skull
Self-Released
2011
Rating: 6.5 day-glo worms out of 10
The Flaming Lips have been EP crazy this year, and this one is the craziest. Four songs stored on a USB drive inside of a gummy skull. As it says on their website "Eat your way to the new music!!!". Oh yeah, and it costs a hundred and fifty bucks...so obviously I stole these songs online. While I love both gummy candies and this band, I'm not that gullible. To their credit, this gummy skull appears to be actual skull sized, so at least you get a shitload of gummy.
Hopefully the other fans out there are as resourceful as I am though, because these songs are pretty damn good. The opener "Drug Chart" is a quick favorite, and as close to a "Soft Bulletin" type pop song as they've released in some time. The rest of the songs are a little more out there, almost ambient and atmospheric but still plenty weird in that Flaming Lips sort of way.
And now I have a strong urge to eat some gummy worms.
(Also, I can't figure out who technically released this - I highly doubt Warner Brothers had anything to do with it, but who knows with this band.)
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