THE FLAMING LIPS
King’s Mouth BELLA UNION
8/10
BANDS that initially gain fame for their arty, psychedelic, freakout excesses often tend to get tamed into normality by middle age and mainstream success; but there are exceptions to every rule, and few bands are more exceptional than The Flaming Lips.
Long after their mid-’00s commercial peak, Oklahoma City’s premier space-rock surrealists continue to expand their kaleidoscopic cosmos with new sounds, ambitious multimedia experiments and carnivalesque live shows.
