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The Flaming Lips - American Head (2020/2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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The Flaming Lips - American Head (2020/2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Flaming Lips - American Head (2020/2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 50:40 minutes | 1,03 GB
Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Bella Union, Official Digital Download

The album is comprised of thirteen new cinematic tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips. Among them, “God and the Policeman” featuring backing vocals from country superstar Kasey Musgraves. American Head takes on a welcome temporal shift that occupies a similar space to that of The Soft Bulletin or Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and just may be their most beautiful and consistent work to date.

American Head finds The Flaming Lips basking in more reflective lyrical places as Wayne Coyne explains in a longer form story titled “We’re An American Band.”

"On American Head, the Flaming Lips use their storytelling skills to their fullest, combining some of their purest moods and most beautiful melodies with some of their most overtly autobiographical songwriting. Drawn from Wayne Coyne's memories of growing up in early '70s Oklahoma with his freewheeling brothers and their biker friends – as well as his imagined version of Mudcrutch, the precursor to Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers that honed their chops in Tulsa around that time – the album's concept is one of the band's richest in some time. At the time of American Head's release, the band compared it to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and The Soft Bulletin, and it's true that the album's scope and depth of feeling put it on that level. However, American Head still bears the scars of albums like The Terror, which brought a weight to the Flaming Lips' music that works especially well on these meditations on the loss of innocence. The band couples the album's frank emotions with frank depictions of drugs. Though their music has evoked altered states since the beginning, they've rarely mentioned drugs directly. They're portrayed as powerful agents of escape and change, particularly on American Head's pair of songs about LSD. "Flowers of Neptune 6" sets a moment of pure epiphany to a lush swath of trumpets, tympani, strings, and the sugared twang of Kacey Musgraves' backing vocals (one of several appearances the country star makes on the album) that calls to mind early '70s AM pop. On "Mother, I've Taken LSD," the dawning awareness of life's beauty and pain, and their intrinsic connections, feels like crossing a threshold from which there is no return. The Lips give equal time to drugs' transcendent and destructive qualities on "At the Movies on Quaaludes" and the hallucinatory "You n Me Sellin' Weed," and moments like these are grounded in just enough realism to make American Head's music that much more transporting. Cocooned in harmonies, "Will You Return/When You Come Down" begins the album with a fragile reflection on the loneliness of surviving that's a perfect example of the Lips' inimitable ability to sound massive and close-up at the same time. Later, the cascading psych-pop epic "Assassins of Youth" serves as a reminder that they're as good at distilling disillusionment as they are at capturing joy. Even American Head's brightest moments are shadowed with sorrow, whether it's the knowledge that the untainted childhood wonder of "Dinosaurs on the Mountain'' is fleeting, or that by the album's end, there's just enough hope left to love someone unquestioningly on "My Religion Is You." Far from a rehash of the band's previous glories, American Head feels transformational; at once magical and down-to-earth, it's the album the Flaming Lips needed to make and fans needed to hear at this point in their career." (Heather Phares, AMG)

TRACKLIST

1. The Flaming Lips - Will You Return / When You Come Down
2. The Flaming Lips - Watching the Lightbugs Glow
3. The Flaming Lips - Flowers of Neptune 6
4. The Flaming Lips - Dinosaurs on the Mountain
5. The Flaming Lips - At the Movies on Quaaludes
6. The Flaming Lips - Mother I've Taken LSD
7. The Flaming Lips - Brother Eye
8. The Flaming Lips - You n Me Sellin' Weed
9. The Flaming Lips - Mother Please Don't Be Sad
10. The Flaming Lips - When We Die When We're High
11. The Flaming Lips - Assassins of Youth
12. The Flaming Lips - God and the Policeman (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
13. The Flaming Lips - My Religion Is You

foobar2000 1.6.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2021-12-14 17:40:00

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Analyzed: The Flaming Lips / American Head
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR5 -0.30 dB -7.44 dB 5:21 01-Will You Return / When You Come Down
DR5 -0.30 dB -9.18 dB 2:53 02-Watching the Lightbugs Glow
DR4 -0.30 dB -6.33 dB 4:31 03-Flowers of Neptune 6
DR4 -0.30 dB -6.29 dB 3:38 04-Dinosaurs on the Mountain
DR5 -0.30 dB -6.60 dB 3:41 05-At the Movies on Quaaludes
DR4 -0.30 dB -6.34 dB 3:48 06-Mother I've Taken LSD
DR5 -0.30 dB -6.53 dB 4:23 07-Brother Eye
DR3 -0.30 dB -5.39 dB 4:57 08-You n Me Sellin' Weed
DR3 -0.30 dB -4.52 dB 3:36 09-Mother Please Don't Be Sad
DR4 -0.30 dB -6.12 dB 3:39 10-When We Die When We're High
DR3 -0.30 dB -6.07 dB 4:12 11-Assassins of Youth
DR5 -0.30 dB -6.95 dB 2:28 12-God and the Policeman (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
DR5 -0.30 dB -7.00 dB 3:33 13-My Religion Is You
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Number of tracks: 13
Official DR value: DR4

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2996 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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