The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips 2011: Gummy Song Fetus
Warner Bros
2011
Rating: 7.5 cherry-flavored babies out of 10
Yet another weird Flaming Lips EP, this time on a USB drive buried inside of a large gummy fetus. Wayne Coyne's crazy ideas outweigh his good ones by at least 10-to-1 these days, but god bless him for it...it's a never a dull moment with this band.
Gimmick aside, it's three more new Flaming Lips songs, or really two new songs and a short interlude. And surprisingly they're both very song-like in the traditional song structure sort of way. Opener "Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear Part 2" is pretty damn enjoyable, part electronic music, part noodly guitars, and Wayne's spacy voice holding all together. Ender "Squishy Glass" is quite a bit mellower, the first half of it sounding like background music in a campy horror film, and eventually developing into a fairly typical song (typical by Flaming Lip's standards, obviously).
It's not like you're going to get your hands on one of the super limited edition gummy fetuses, so just track the songs down online. I've got to think at some point the Lips will compile all the EPs from this year and release them as one long player, but you would have thought they would have released a regular single disc version of "Zaireeka" by now too.
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