First Listen: Flaming Lips - The Terror


Following up their Heady Fwends-album the band released in April last year, the new Flaming Lips-album is to be released in two days, but is already available on Spotify.

This upcoming The Terror contains many similarities with its predecessor, but might as well be the musical counterpart of their previous The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, as it often replaces songs crowded with background noises with a more natural, subdued atmosphere and a sound which is a combination of ambient, space rock and neo-psychedelia.

The album is a reversal following their differently appreciated predecessor, but whether the album, after the release of an atypical Heady Fwends-album as it were, rather tends to earlier work, might be quite questionable, as the band came from a long series of album where their typical alternative rock sound took the upper hand.