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Embryonic | 
| Artist: The Flaming Lips
Label: WEA/Reprise
Category: Music
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 1301
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 520857
UPC: 093624973386
EAN: 0093624973386
ASIN: B002MJM88O
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Convinced Of The Hex | | • | The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine | | • | Evil | | • | Aquarius Sabotage | | • | See The Leaves | | • | If | | • | Gemini Syringes | | • | Your Bats | | • | Powerless | | • | The Ego's Last Stand | | • | I Can Be A Frog | | • | Sagittarius Silver Announcement | | • | Worm Mountain | | • | Scorpio Sword | | • | The Impulse | | • | Silver Trembling Hands | | • | Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast | | • | Watching The Planets |
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Product Description
After lauded indie albums, The Flaming Lips debuted on Warner Bros. with 1991's Hit To Death In The Future Head. Transmissions From The Satellite Heart and Clouds Taste Metallic followed. 1999's TheSoft Bulletin topped numerous year-end best-of listsand helped rank the band among the most influential inthe world. 2002's Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots ranked #4 in Spin and #11 in NME on their end-of-yearlists, and won a Grammy. Most recently, the band's full length feature film and score album Christmas On Mars received critical acclaim at screenings across the country in 2008.
Album Description
2009 album from the Alt-Rock heroes, their 12th album overall. Embryonic is also their most ambitious album to date, recorded and envisioned as a double album that can take it's rightful place beside The White Album, Physical Graffiti, The Wall and others. After lauded indie albums, The Flaming Lips debuted on Warner Bros. with 1991's Hit To Death In The Future Head. Transmissions From The Satellite Heart and Clouds Taste Metallic followed. 1999's The Soft Bulletin topped numerous year-end best-of lists and helped rank the band among the most influential in the world. 2002's Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots ranked #4 in Spin and #11 in NME on their end-of-year lists, and won a Grammyr. Most recently, the band's full length feature film and score album Christmas On Mars received critical acclaim at screenings across the country in 2008.
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 the flaming lips - embryonic March 8, 2010
archimboldo (oracle,arizona)
This is for all those whining negative reviewers who should listen to the Beatles and be happy (since apparently that is all they can handle):
this album is great! It's unpredictable and constantly changing, full of surprises - you never know what's coming next. For those of us who listen to good music no matter what genre, Sun Ra, Can, Kraftwerk, Micah P.Hinson, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and all the other great improvisers on this planet, this album definitely makes a good addition. Open your ears people!
That's the Difference Between Us March 5, 2010
T. Owens (Pacific Grove, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm an old dude. Pushing 60. Spent my formative musical years in the 60's and 70's, a huge fan of groups like the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, King Crimson, Yes, Traffic, Genesis, Roxy Music/Eno and more obscure groups like Gong, Camel, White Noise, Gang of Four and Le Orme. I wanted to present that perspective so you get where I'm coming from before saying I think Embryonic is a masterwork that stands up to the efforts of those vets who knew how to blend music, sound and noise into a sonic landscape that takes the listener on wonderful journeys.
Believe me, I understand that this is not everyone's cup of tea. It was never intended to be. I get it why some people might actually hate it, just like I used to get crinkled faces and jeers when I put on In the Court of the Crimson King or Topographic Oceans. But to the audience who enjoys more adventuresome opuses, who have the patience and desire to sit back, listen intently from beginning to end and just let the fun happen, this is one of the freshest, most original albums I have heard in years. Perhaps my favorite for all of 2009.
 Embryonic February 28, 2010
Bjorn Viberg (European Union)
Embryonic being Flaming Lips 12th studio album and their 2009 release is a mix of Alternative rock, indie rock, neo-psychedelia, space rock and experimental rock. One could even say that at times a bit like Einsturzende Neubauten and other experimental groups like Skinny Puppy and the Klinik. This is not radio friendly easy listening but experimental music at its finest. All the lyrics are included but not a list of whom plays what. Allmusic and NME both gave the album high marks in their reviews. The album did also well with the public at large and peaked at #8 on the billboard 200. 4/5.
 An overproduced mess February 24, 2010
Jacques L Capesius (St. Paul, MN United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In Embryonic, Coyne & Co. go for a "raw" sound. As the name of the album would suggest, the goal here is to get sounds in their embryonic, primal, basic state. But rather than going about this naturally by stripping away the heaping, oozing gratuitous gobs of special effects, they did the opposite, running everything though so many filters, processors, distorters, flangers, egg beaters, wood chippers, and everything else they could think of. The result can be described as nothing other than a complete mess. This album is way, way, WAY overproduced, to the point of being ridiculous.
It's as if producer Dave Fridmann, one time wunderkind, took the George Lucas route, in that he became so infatuated with his Pro-Tools set up and all the toys he had at his fingertips, that he decided to throw in every single one he could think of. Ever had a suicide soda? You know, where you take as many different kinds of soda pop as you can find, mix it all together, and try and drink it? Remember how that weird taste wouldn't go away? Remember the headache you got afterward? Well, the approach is the same here, and so is the result.
This needed to happen February 15, 2010
GreatD (America)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoy 'yoshimi...' as much as the next guy but 'at war...' was beginning to sound a little stale. That doesn't happen much with the Lips, and I have been wanting to hear them get back into the Jamming mode for awhile. This album grows on you. I think it will serve as a good departure point for the fair weather fan's that jumped on the bandwagon with 'Soft Bulletin' and never bothered to listen to the earlier stuff. It's a much rawer sound than the last three records and for me it was a very welcome change of directions. This album is very much a Flaming Lips record so enjoy it.
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