Embryonic Review

The universe tends toward disarray. Stars explode. Planets collide. Singers in white suits douse themselves in fake blood. The Flaming Lips understand this sloppy state of affairs and have spent the past 25 years gleefully dealing with the mess, first encouraging it as acid-stuffed punks and then, for the past decade, coming to terms with it as the mainstream's warmly philosophical psych-pop freaks of choice
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Christmas on Mars might be the Flaming Lips' bona fide sci-fi epic, but Embryonic is the musical equivalent of the final scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey: transformative chaos that results in a new start.
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