Whether walking over the crowd in his giant plastic ball singing David Bowie’s Space Oddity, donning a strobe-light medallion for The WAND or leading a concerted effort to break the ceiling by screaming “love” ahead of Do You Realize?, Coyne seems reborn, once again dishing out the purest, most potent dose of feelgood psychedelia imaginable. And, of course, Coyne sings Dalek chill-out tune There Should Be Unicorns astride a life-sized prop unicorn, having presumably gone skip-diving at Mariah Carey’s house. On glacial mecha-ballad How?, a crestfallen plea for liberal freedoms that feels all the more hopeless in the face of Donald Trump’s tangerine terror-glare, Coyne sounds as if he’s trapped in one of Coleridge’s pleasure-dome ice caves, while album highlight The Castle resembles a fanfare for fairytale royalty. The flaming lips w a n d live the w a n d by flaming lips the flaming lips w a n d play the w a n d by flaming lips. Songs from their current comedown phase provide amorphous, dream-like counterpoint. The two-hour show includes light-up gongs, psychedelic nudes and gigantic dancing eyeballs beamed in from an alternate universe in which the Residents are playing stadiums.ĭisclaimer: no hallucinogens were abused in the making of this review. Wayne does it himself and at the same time he realizes that the questions. Placebo Headwound (Clouds Taste Metallic, 1995) Everyone is asking themselves these questions now and then. Don’t miss out on the TIMELESS The Flaming Lips Click below to experience The Flaming Lips at their finest 20. For a tender acoustic take on Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: Pt One, he’s flanked by overgrown aliens and goblins and repeatedly hugs an inflatable sun.Ĭome the mangled Beck-in-a-tumble-dryer electro-rock of What Is the Light?, the forest of dot-matrix strings hanging overhead – let’s call them Rapunzel lights – descends to stage level so that Coyne, wandering within them, looks as if he’s showering in sine waves. Here are all of The Flaming Lips songs ranked. Date First Available : February 16, 2015.
Photograph: Simone Joyner/RedfernsĪt the opening sci-fi overture of Race for the Prize, the venue explodes with balloons, confetti cannons and rainbow visuals as Coyne – done out like a Tim Burton-Albert Einstein – throws a huge silver balloon sign reading “FUCK YEAH LONDON” into a crowd peppered with Father Christmases. Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne in London.
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