My favorite album from them
5
By Lasagna hog
If you think this is just noise and garbage, it means you can't be saved from ur own stupidity. I suggest listening to this alone and all the way through non stop, as this is an album where the songs are connected. It feels like one long depressing nightmare, but amazing to listen to.
Great for a passenger staring at the moon
5
By Basssquid25
The moodiest and most desolate installation to the Lips discography. Enjoyed the whole album on my way to virginia the other night. But this... it is a great eerie experimental gem for certain. Anticipating my next listen to find new little details like I always do with these guys. The best tracks: Look...The Sun Is Rising, Be Free, A Way, and You Lust.
Better with Each Listen
5
By IndoLove
After many listens, I have grown to truly appreciate this album. Now I consider this album to be their masterpiece. There is something really honest and powerful being expressed within these songs. Yes, they are melancholy and deal with subjects like loss and loneliness, but I also find great hope being expressed throughout. In " Try to Explain" the band is expressing the universal feeling of loss that all of us can relate to. Other great tracks are, "Be Free, A Way", "You Are Alone", and "Always There In Our Hearts." There are no catchy songs here and it is vastly different than anything they have done before. Give this album a chance and after a few listens and it will grow on you I promise! Can't wait to see what they do next.
MK Ultra will draw you in
5
By rivulet246
to this soundscape.
This album is beautiful
5
By Buggnooga04
I don't understand some of the hate this album is getting. I'm not a huge Flaming Lips fan but this album has converted me. This album is beautiful... Bottom line. Almost every song is chock full of emotion. I dare an other band to produce an album with this much emotion, while also retaining beautiful chord structures. Buy this album
Torturous, horrifying, sharp and bloody womb music.
5
By Edges91
This is one of the most inventive, challenging, and terrifying works of music I've had the pleasure to shock my senses with. With a new found outlook on not only their tone, but how they execute and create sounds and grime them together, the Flaming Lips have taken the happiness out of the formula while leaving the immense excitement and sense of wonder they know how to deliver. Putting this record on will scare some, I would even issue a trigger-warning for this record as it could disorient or frighten you. The dense fog of synth, the astounding lack of drums (existing merely to set the time, no theatrics or "life" to them), the guitars mangled, sharp and beating sometimes, or coated in layers of manipulated effects... The Flaming Lips used the perfect word when describing this monolith: Bleak.
Give it a listen. Make yourself a womb of sheets and turn it up loud. This is the musical equivilent to a horror movie. 5/5
Outstanding
5
By Mkbowlware
This album is much "darker" than any of there other albums but once again they've blown me away. Also the music not just the singing is what I consider art. I've never been disappointed you guys are great keep making music!
Cohesive, meditative TFL goodness
5
By j-chem07
Exactly what I was in the mood for. I like that it includes the whole album as one track because I think that's the best way to listen to it. It consumed all 50 minutes in what felt like an instant of focused, electronic meditation. The lips just get better and better.
A Masterpiece!
5
By Zumps
I find it humorous to contrast the intelligent, thoughtfully written reviews (overwhelmingly positive) with the negative reviews, which can be summed up as saying the album is terrible. I am so tired of "fans" that think groups should simply repeat their past successes, rather than grow and delve into new horizons. The same thing happened with the release of "The Soft Bulletin" when people yearned for more "She Don't Use Jelly." Great bands grow and mature. A fine example is the Beatles' "Seargent Pepper." I'm old enough (61) to remember the excitement of listening to the album while hearing many complaints that it wasn't the Beatles they knew. I'm a huge fan of GREAT MUSIC! The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Grizzly Bear, Smashing Pumpkins, Animal Collective, Foo Fighters, Black Keys, White Stripes, Coldplay, Beck, etc. The Flaming Lips have been added to the groups for which I own EVERYTHING that they've ever recorded. "The Terror" is a great album. Find a quiet place, put on your headphones and listen to it as a whole. If you're lucky enough to have the deluxe version, start with track 10 (the seamless full album) to listen to it as intended, followed by the last 2 bonus tracks that fit in perfectly. To Wayne and company: Thank you!!! Keep growing.
Terrifyingly Brillant
5
By LanceESwen
The album is a masterpiece though it's not for everyone or most music listeners. I would say this may relate to Radiohead's Kid-A/Amnesiac sessions and or Pink Floyd pre-'Dark Side.' The track the 'The Terror' is relevant to our times living in terror. 'You Lust' feels like it emerged from a futuristic dystopian underworld.
