Posts Tagged ‘Oczy Mlody’

The FLAMING LIPS – ” The Castle “

Posted: January 14, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Flaming Lips Sunrise Eyes of the Young

At their best, the Flaming Lips are like sci-fi/fantasy authors who create new worlds as an attempt to make sense of our own. The sad and shimmering ballad “The Castle” is an incredible example of this, as Wayne Coyne builds a fairy tale in order to understand his friend’s suicide, with a ruined castle representing her unique spark of humanity that’s gone forever. “Her love is still buried there, in the ruins of the castle,” he warbles in mournful realization. The band have released a music video for ‘The Castle’, marking the first new music from The Flaming Lips since their ‘Dead Petz’ collaboration with Miley Cyrus.

Frontman Wayne Coyne described ‘Oczy Mlody’ as sounding like “Syd Barrett meets A$AP Rocky and they get trapped in a fairy tale from the future.”

Official Music Video for “The Castle” From The Flaming Lips. Listen to the new album ‘Oczy Mlody’ . The Flaming Lips released a series of videos explaining the album, with Coyne describing the meaning behind the album’s Polish language title and the songs ‘Nigdy Nie (Never No’ and ‘Almost Home (Blisko Domu).’

“At first it appealed to us because it appeared to sound like a drug; it reminded us of oxycodone,” Coyne said. “And then I think this initial appeal made us curious about what it could mean, and I believe when we looked it up, the very first thing we saw was that it meant ‘eyes of the young’… We wouldn’t like the title ‘Eyes of the Young,’ but we liked how these other jumbled words could mean that.”

The FLAMING LIPS – ” There Should Be Unicorns ” On The Late Show

Posted: March 4, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Psychedelic rock isn’t dead, or at least The Flaming Lips don’t think so. Last night, they pulled out all the stops in their enthusiastic performance of “There Should Be Unicorns” from their 2017 album Oczy Mlody. Frontman Wayne Coyne was mounted on a unicorn wearing angel wings, Steven Drozd wore a red cape and bassist Michael Ivins wore an Oklahoma City Thunder jersey, referring, of course, to the band’s hometown (“Do You Realize??” was once the official state rock song of Oklahoma, incidentally.)

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With a psychedelic back-light and on-stage astronauts, the performance effectively circumvented the need for drug consumption to arrive at a hallucinatory experience. Still, though the band’s showmanship remained strong, critics might claim that this is only compensation for a weak album, at least compared to those of the band’s golden age. It’s worth wondering whether, by wholeheartedly sinking into psychedelic tropes, The Flaming Lips may be effectively losing touch with their overwhelming musical talent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlQW06auw4

America’s wildest rock ‘n roll band ride onto the Late Show stage to perform a song off their new album ‘Oczy Mlody.’