“Her face was a fairy tale
It has a poison apple
Her skull was a mighty moat
Her brain was the castle”
The Flaming Lips
have returned back
to fairy land
where neon lights
and melting smiles
take shape under
half a dozen
sleepless moons.
“And the castle gets mistaken for a shape that’s frozen in the clouds”
Back in October,
they released
"The Castle",
an animated
and psychedelic
lead single
for their new album,
Oczy Mlody,
arriving on January 13.
One month later,
they released their second
music video,
"How??"
With red and blue
suited up and masked
ladies, the slow
motion video
utilizes Roman candles
and stuffed animals
with reckless abandon.
These two videos
show such great promise
for Oczy Mlody,
the band's seventeenth
studio album.
I am loyal
to the FLips era
of Yoshimi and The Soft Bulletin
(shout-out Zaireeka)
and this project
seems like it might be
a return to the more
poppy and accessible
Lips sound. Both
of these tracks
are grooved out hits.
January can't come
quickly enough.
