Have the Flaming Lips just released a career-killing album?

The impenetrable new record from Wayne Coyne and his crew might be a failed experiment, but it's better than not experimenting at allIt takes approximately five minutes of the Flaming Lips' Embryonic to realise that you're in the presence of one of those albums: a confounding, caution-to-the-wind act of experimentation and maybe folly, where anything even remotely approaching commercial consideration has gone completely out of the window.You don't get many of them these days, on the not unreason...

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