At War With The Mystics is their best album, and I will fight people. Even if track 2 is dumb.
Anyway the Flaming Lips were always on a bizarre trajectory that only coincidentally crossed what normal people consider music. Right before The Soft Bulletin they released a four-disc album that was designed for all four discs to be played at the same time. They went from Mystics to Christmas On Mars to Embryonic to 7 Skies H3 to The Terror… and it’s not so much a dropoff in quality as a continued vector through what-the-fuckery.
At War With The Mystics is their best album, and I will fight people. Even if track 2 is dumb.
Anyway the Flaming Lips were always on a bizarre trajectory that only coincidentally crossed what normal people consider music. Right before The Soft Bulletin they released a four-disc album that was designed for all four discs to be played at the same time. They went from Mystics to Christmas On Mars to Embryonic to 7 Skies H3 to The Terror… and it’s not so much a dropoff in quality as a continued vector through what-the-fuckery.