THE FLAMING LIPS HEAR IT IS SERIES
Mother’s sacrifice, Father’s intensity, Brother’s insanity, Sister’s rebellion… I can’t quite put it into words.”Īmerican Head paints a heartfelt series of cinematic, technicolor musical stories and character studies. We were, while creating it, trying to NOT hear it as sounds… but to feel it. A feeling that, I think, can only be expressed through music and songs. The music and songs that make up the American Head album are based in a feeling. We started to think of classic American bands like The Grateful Dead and Parliament-Funkadelic and how maybe we could embrace this new vibe. We had become a 7-piece ensemble and were beginning to feel more and more of a kinship with groups that have a lot of members in them. So for the first time in our musical life we began to think of ourselves as ‘An American Band’… telling ourselves that it would be our identity for our next creative adventure. We never thought of ourselves as an American band… for most of our musical life we’ve kind of thought of ourselves as coming from ‘Earth’… not really caring where we were actually from. Some excerpts were, however, included in the press release and are worth repeating for perspective: I hope the back-story (titled “We’re An American Band”) will be included in the album’s liner notes as it puts all the music into perspective (it was in the pre-release press package we received but I can’t really do that any justice in my review space, so I won’t spoil it for you). In a way, American Head feels like The Flaming Lips have made a natural full-circle on their exploratory journey since Embryonic on through to The Terror, Oczy Mlody and King’s Mouth (click the titles to jump to my reviews of those albums).Īmerican Head has triggered something remarkable in me… something which only a small group of albums have done to me over the years: The Flaming Lips’ American Head made me cry… This is a good thing and to that, American Head feels immediately classic.Īmerican Head is a concept album of a sort where The Flaming Lips have immersed themselves in a deeply introspective scenario, a dream state of a sort as beautiful as it is harrowing. I certainly wouldn’t call this a throwback but I will say that if you’d like their classic trilogy of The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and At War With The Mystics you will probably like this album a whole lot. The Flaming Lips have a new album dropping this week and it’s called American Head… and it is quite fantastic! They were placed on Q magazine 's list of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die" in 2002.Twitter Facebook Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest SMS WhatsApp The group has won three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. In February 2007, they were nominated for a BRIT Award for "Best International Act". They later released The Soft Bulletin (1999), which was NMEmagazine's Album of the Year, and then Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002). After signing to Warner Brothers, they released their first record with Warner, Hit to Death in the Future Head (1992).
The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s. The Flaming Lips are an American rock band formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This album marks the debut of Wayne Coyne on vocals, after the departure of his brother Mark. It was released on Restless Records in 1986.
Hear It Is is The Flaming Lips' first full-length album.
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