The Flaming Lips with Prefuse 73 - The Flaming Lips 2011: The Flaming Lips with Prefuse 73 (Warner Bros, 2011)

The Flaming Lips with Prefuse 73
The Flaming Lips 2011: The Flaming Lips with Prefuse 73
Warner Bros
2011

Rating: 5.5 burning bushes out of 10

The Flaming Lips have been on a serious EP releasin' tear this year, and this one, wherein they team up with Prefuse 73, is the most bizarre and "out there" one of the bunch. It's very noisy, spacy, almost zen...I almost changed into yoga pants while listening to it, and I don't even own any yoga pants. Really, the opener "The Super Moon Made Me Wanna Pee!!!" is the only thing that comes close to the sort of songs you would expect out of the Lips, or at least would expect out of them these days. The other three tracks, which are more sonic soundscapes than they are songs, sound like a combination of really early Lips with, well, someone like Prefuse 73. Not the best EP for pop fans, but those who dig the more experimental side of things might be into this.