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Originally Posted by Molecules
Farting Ships 'Catatonic' (2009)
I was not planning to hear this, but someone whose opinion I respect sent me a link, and I am pleasantly surprised (so far, about halfway through and no sign of Karen O yet =S).
First of all, too many people like the Flaming Lips, and it's not that i'm an elitist, it's just that if that many people enjoy something in this day and age there must be something wrong with it; and their last two albums were pretty horrible - happy clappy, churchy, annoying - like the Polyphonic Spree. Dinner party psychedelia. Anti-Bush lyrics are all very well, but I am one of those twats who thinks 'Hit to Death in the Future Head' is twice the album 'Yoshimi' is.
'Embryonic' takes the rich sonic palette they have developed making their Disney albums and applies it to a self-indulgent psychedelic mess, just like the old stuff. The best pop U-turn in recent memory, I give the first half of this album a gold star. And given how I felt about Jesus Coyne until an hour ago that is quite significant |
thank god someone agrees with me. i mean, it's one thing to abandon the pop sheen to their songs, it's another to abandon songwriting altogether. i couldn't make it past track five without wondering when the hell the next song was coming on.
i don't know whose head is up critics asses but i'll be the first to proffer my disappointment at not hearing a single memorable track on the entire album. definite candidate for the 'lose' column, sorry Wayne.