Usually between albums the band would take little detours into passion projects – some great ( The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends) and some ludicrous ( With a Little Help From My Fwends, which had a good cause) – but they’ve always pulled themselves back into their world. When The Terror was released out in the world back in 2013, it represented a shift for the band. But that’s in the past now, and what we have with American Head is a less experimental, a less flamboyant, and yes, a less flaming, Flaming Lips. Not to be completely dismissive of their 2010s output, but most of their albums and projects didn’t compare to their 90s and 2000s work, undoubtedly the peak of their career the lowest point being their involvement with Miley Cyrus on her embarrassing 2015 album Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz. The cycle’s been broken with American Head, unquestionably the finest hour from the Flaming Lips in over a decade. Continuously bucking traditions that define “rock music” in the 2010s, the Lips continued to released a bizarre string of tunes that while plentiful, never really felt like a proper follow-up to 2009’s immaculate Embroyonic. They’ve been together for 37 years, and in that amount of time they have shown resilience to the changing of times by still doing exactly what they want, when they want. It’s kind of hard to believe that The Flaming Lips have now released music in five different decades.
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