The album tempers Deap Vally’s foul-mouthed passion with The Flaming Lips’ experience and sonic sorcery. The juxtaposition is on full display for “Love is a Mind Control,” a song The Flaming Lips originally worked up for singer-songwriter Kesha. The album’s music splits its personality between strummed acoustic guitars and psychedelic synthesizers, usually at the same time. Gone for the most part are Deap Vally’s lo-fi Sabbath-like power chords, supplanted by The Flaming Lips’ sci-fi hippy vibe from their Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots era. Ironically, the anti-drug anthem sounds pretty doped-up, and Troy can’t resist adding an Oedipal element to the line, “Lord, he’ll leave your motherfucking mind to scream.” Originally envisioned for a Flaming Lips collaboration with Miley Cyrus that never happened, the album’s cover of Steppenwolf’s “The Pusher” synthesizes the original’s overdriven grit, transforming it into an airy, bleepy, and Auto-Tuned sci-fi soundscape. On the album’s first single, “Hope, Hell, High,” Troy lends her distinctive voice, which sounds more than a little like “Ex’s and Oh’s” singer Elle King, to a silky acoustic ballad that grows forceful during the hard-hitting chorus with Edwards singing, “It’s a motherfucker, it’s a motherfucker, blam, blam, blam, blam blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blam!” Mission accomplished: The song includes the lyrics: “Riding along through the deep valley where the dragons of madness roam” along with, “Now I think I tried too hard to shut the mouth of doom.taking all my wisdom from the flaming lips of youth.” So Flaming Lips members Wayne Coyne and Drozd set to work, dusting off some unused songs from other projects and composing new ones, including the album’s opener, the overdriven and syncopated “Home Through Hell.” The artists were committed to shoehorning both bands’ names into the lyrics. Weird in its best way.But Troy and Edwards arrived in Oklahoma City without any material prepared. ![]() The only downside of it might be that the songs are almost TOO blended into each other, this could be hard for people who listen to their music on shuffle a lot. This is something people can get over, though, especially with an album that is so well composed and put together with a lot of weird new sounds. The album is not predictable and that’s why it is so exciting. Even though it seems like the little space journey doesn’t end well, but the song is amazing.ĭeap Lips show with their debut album how much fun they had with experiments and exploring the spectrum of sound. The intergalactic voyage is coming to an end with “There is Know Right There is Know Wrong” and dramatic electric sounds and dark vocals. “Not A Natural Man” slightly monotone beat is surprising because most of the album is so much sound. The song is somehow disturbing with the lyrics and sounds combined, but that makes it a very exciting song as well. The vocals are distant and very robotic, but the beat ends in a jungle-like feeling. “The Pusher” is about the dangers of certain drugs. Not someone finds you but something, the bass to “Wandering Witches,” a smoother, more relaxing sound. The outro sounds like drifting alone in space, waiting for someone to find you. “Love is Mind control” features so many highs and deeps, it feels like it is multiple songs in one. “Love is Mind Control” is by far the longest song on the album and has some Beatles vibe to it, if the Beatles were female and made music today. Their voices sound a little like chipmunks on an LSD trip. The song has more sounds in itself than some artist has in their entire album.Īgain, the song blends perfectly into the following “Motherfuckers Got to Go” which is probably the most catchy one on the entire album because it’s basically just repeating “the motherfuckers got to go, yeah yeah yeah” over and over with an interception of a little rap section. This song shows how much fun Deap Lips had produced this album. The vocals vary from high and opera-like to pausing abruptly. ![]() “Hope Hell High” reminds one maybe a little of the opera scene in The Fifth Element. ![]() “Shit Talkin” hits softer notes, but Deap Lips stay true to their sound, floating through the galaxy, smooth sailing. The track smoothly transitions towards the next song, “One Thousand Sisters with Aluminum Calculators,” which is mostly instrumental and connects well with the other songs on the album. The self-titled album starts off with the previously released single “Home Thru Hell.” The song starts with sounds that could be from an intergalactic race battle, very futuristic, and the robotic vocals of Flaming Lips mixed with the rocking vocals of Deap Vally are just the cherry on top.
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