The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – review

(Bella Union)Much as I love the childlike wonder that glows from the Flaming Lips, the title of their new album makes me want to fwow up. Therein begin its problems. By the Lips' standards, the experiment behind it is fairly conventional: challenging themselves to release new music for every month of 2011, they collaborated with a disparate bunch of musicians, from Erykah Badu to Bon Iver, and this compilation is the result. If the 13 songs sound unexpectedly coherent together, it's because wha...

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