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As you might expect from a band renowned for their love of innovation, the approach to writing the album was a trifle unorthodox...
Instead of writing each song track by track, the record began as long improvised sessions which were recorded at Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd's house; these sessions were then given to producer Dave Fridmann, who helped the band massage them into songs.
US music site NPR are streaming the entire album here
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The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Norman, Oklahoma in 1983. Instrumentally, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles--such as "What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical In Our Brains by Which We Are...
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