Oczy Mlody
Described by frontman Wayne Coyne as “Syd Barrett meets A$AP Rocky and they get trapped in a fairy tale from the future,” *Oczy Mlody*—Polish for “eyes of the young”—is a set of viscous, synth-driven nocturnes that extends the band’s recent run of moody experimentation. While “Galaxy I Sink” recalls the despair of 2013’s *The Terror*, the prismatic pop of “We a Family” sounds relatively unburdened, thanks in part to an appearance by friend and collaborator Miley Cyrus.
Miley Cyrus only appears once on the Flaming Lips’ claustrophobic new full-length, but the record wouldn’t sound the way it does without her presence in their lives.
Future funk, psychedelic krautrock, goblin pop and, for real, loads more. The Flaming Lips new album is as weird as you hoped.
The form is familiar, but the contents of The Flaming Lips' return don't always cohere into something meaningful.
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Oczy Mlody finds Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips on top of their game, refracting the weirdness of the world through a youthful sense of awe and wonder.
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Over the past half-decade, The Flaming Lips have given their less obliging fans reasonable cause to hold their breaths and approach new releases with a twinge of trepidation.
Wayne Coyne has described ‘Oczy Mlody’ as sounding “like Syd Barrett meets A$AP Rocky”. Given that conjures up thoughts of an
After their recent flamboyant run of releases The Flaming Lips take an unexpected, understated turn on their latest album.
Oczy Mlody is a masterstroke of rhythm and tone that neither trips head-on into bliss nor spins into dismay.
Oczy Mlody chops up the best bits of the Flaming Lips' kaleidoscopic past and reconfigures them into something fresh and new.