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W HO ARE THEY? The fearlessly freaky, artfully psychedelic and mind-bendingly theatrical Oklahoma oddballs fronted by corkscrew-maned frontman/ringleader Wayne Coyne.The Flaming Lips release the official live video for ‘What Is the Light?’ – ‘The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live At Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra’ due Friday

WHAT IS THIS? The first official live release of their three decade-plus career, believe it or not.

THE FLAMING LIPS RED ROCKS FULL

FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN LIVE AT RED ROCKS FULLĪnd not just any live album: As the overly wordy, on-the-nose title The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre Featuring the Colorado Symphony Orchestra & Andre de Ridder makes painfully clear, this majestically maximalist 2016 live recording finds The Flaming Lips recreating the American version of their 1999 breakthrough disc The Soft Bulletin in full and in order, with the technicolour backing of a 68-piece symphony orchestra and 57-piece chorus. WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE? The best-sounding drug trip you’ve ever taken. Thanks to the superb stylish orchestrations created by Denver multi-instrumentalist Tom Hager of DeVotchka, the army of additional performers manage to complement these cuts instead of competing with the band’s epic concept piece about life, love, disillusionment and death. WHAT SHOULD IT BE TITLED? The Sound They Made Was Love - a line from the song A Spoonful Weighs a Ton. HOW SHOULD I LISTEN TO IT? While rolling around your living room in a giant hamster ball - preferably clad in a tuxedo, with a splash of fake blood on your forehead, just to complete the bizarre picture. WHAT 10 WORDS SUM IT UP? Grand, sophisticated, whimsical, lush, trippy, layered, sweeping, weird, melancholy, spiritual. WHAT ARE THE BEST SONGS? The shimmering sunrise of Race For the Prize, the bittersweet Waitin’ For a Superman and the groovy Suddenly Everything Has Changed. WHAT WILL MY FRIENDS SAY?‘Are we really supposed to believe that nobody filmed this performance or recorded it in 5.1 audio?’ Pity this disc doesn’t include the non-album encores (including David Bowie’s Space Oddity). HOW OFTEN WILL I LISTEN TO IT? Whenever you want to soak up some Lips and feel a little highbrow at the same time.

IF THIS ALBUM WERE AN ACTIVITY, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Spacewalking as the Sun slowly rises over the lip of the Earth. SHOULD I BUY, STREAM OR STEAL IT? Tempted as I would be to shell out for this, it can’t hurt to wait and see if there’s a bigger, better version coming down the pipe.The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne performs 'The Soft Bulletin' live in 2016 at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado, with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Īn abbreviated version of this story appears in Friday's Weekend Life section of The Oklahoman.

Live Lips: OKC-based art-rockers The Flaming Lips release their first live album, revisiting 'The Soft Bulletin' with the Colorado SymphonyĪny Flaming Lips fans surprised that the Oklahoma City-based experimental rockers are just releasing their first official live album, take heart: Wayne Coyne finds it hard to believe, too. 'We have things out there but never an absolute live album it's always been accompanied with stuff,' the band's frontman said in a phone interview last week from his OKC home. 'The other things that we released were like DVDs, so it would be a concert where it's really about the video. But it was never like a live album where you're just listening to the music.' And of course, obviously, there's sound and stuff with it. 'It's a venue where people really from all over the world travel to Red Rocks and don't really even care who's playing. FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN LIVE AT RED ROCKS FULL.

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