The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips – American Head (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:42 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Acid Rock, Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bella Union

American Legends The Flaming Lips release their 21st studio album, American Head via Bella Union. The album is comprised of thirteen new cinematic tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips. Among them, God and the Policeman featuring backing vocals from country superstar Kasey Musgraves. American Head takes on a welcome temporal shift that occupies a similar space to that of The Soft Bulletin or Yoshmi Battles the Pink Robots and just may be their most beautiful and consistent work to date.

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The Flaming Lips – Seeing The Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings Of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 05:08:43 minutes | 6,51 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ryko – Rhino

Deliciously strange and eccentric, the Flaming Lips are one of these bands from the 80s alternative rock scene that have survived remarkably well. Their psychedelic and quirky tendencies are as surprising as they are fascinating. With these madmen from Oklahoma, everything takes a different shape. A sort of mix between exaggerated distortions and sped-up headbanging, or even role-play in a world ruled by hallucinogenic mushrooms. That’s the kind of atmosphere these rock geniuses have maintained from 1983 to this day, and that caught the eye of label Rhino Records. For the first time, the entirety of the Flaming Lips recordings from 1986 to 1990 for the label Restless Records are being released in a remastered version (by Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins and David Fridmann, the band’s long-time producer) and gathered on six albums under the title Seeing The Unseeable. A huge collection that includes four of their best albums: Hear It Is, Oh My Gawd, Telepathic Surgery and In a Priest Driven Ambulance. And as a bonus, an album filled with rare gems: The Mushroom Tapes.
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The Flaming Lips – Zaireeka (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:01:49 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Experimental, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records

Originally released in 1997 as a 4-CD box set, the Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka is the ultimate communal listening experience. Each disc, composed of eight tracks with identical run times, is intended to be played simultaneously on four separate audio systems. While any number of configurations would also result in unique sound montages, gather up three friends, or strangers, to achieve the desired effect. This is the first time the album has been made available digitally.

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The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2002/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 07:21:54 minutes | 8,51 GB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records

If, in 1999, The Soft Bulletin found the Flaming Lips decisively moving away from their previous identity as acid-damaged rockers and segueing into a more genteel sort of psychedelia, 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was where the band fully set their controls for the heart of the sun. The Lips completely shed the dissonance and goofiness of their early major label releases and turned the sweeping soundscapes of Soft Bulletin into the foundation of Yoshimi, a new sound that was cosmically and philosophically indulgent. While these indulgences would go to extremes on many of the band’s future releases, here they’re a dazzling balance of bold sonic experimentation and deeply melodic (but sublimely weird) song structures that resulted in what is probably the strongest and most cohesive album in their catalog.

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