Flaming Lips - King’s Mouth CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
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23-Bella 5400863012939
“The Flaming Lips, never strangers to odd concepts or extended musical ideas, have released their first true concept album with King's Mouth (no, Yoshimi with its mini-arc doesn't count). The album was composed to accompany Wayne's traveling art exhibit of the same name, the paintings being reprinted within the CD booklet to assist visualizing the concept. This concept, involving an orphaned giant baby who saves the world and is decapitated in the process and who's head is kept and celebrated inside by future generations, touches a lot of the same thematic beats the Lips have made their name on, particularly life, death, loss and the big L O V E.
Strange concepts aside, the LP can only be as strong as its tunes which, thankfully, are some of the best to come from the band's late period. Best described as a middle ground between Yoshimi's brighter production, Embryonic's penchant for the unsettling and At War With The Mystics' pervasive existential dread, King's Mouth also features narration from The Clash's Mick Jones which helps settle the band's cerebral concepts within their art pop meets experimental noise sound nicely.”
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