Country: USA
Sub Genre: Krautrock
Label: Warner Bros
Release date: August 19, 2014
Tracklist:
1. I Could Only See Clouds
2. Futuristic Hallucination
3. The Bat
4. The Second Time
5. Transform
6. Heart of the Sunrise
Line-up:
Steven Drozd (The Flaming Lips) - vocals, guitars, and keyboards
Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips) - bass
Charlee Cook (Linear Downfall)
Chance Cook (Linear Downfall)
Will Hicks (Linear Downfall)
Dom Marcoaldi (Linear Downfall)
Description/Reviews:
Given that Drozd has long been the de facto musical director of the Flaming Lips, the Würms unsurprisingly stick to the post-Embryonic playbook, to the point where the new band name is practically immaterial, and Musik, die Schwer zu Twerk could just as easily be the (slightly) sunnier follow-up to the blood-red-skied electro-psych of 2013’s The Terror. And when you consider how much Coyne’s voice was fused into the textural mist on that album, Drozd’s soft, childlike coo doesn’t have much opportunity to distinguish itself amid the shock-treatment synths, radio-static guitar fuzz, and stellar-drift drums. Oddly, for an album that cheekily presents itself as a long-lost ’70s prog cut-out bin artifact, Musik, die Schwer zu Twerk’s most notable characteristic may be its 29-minute brevity, offering a tasting-menu sampler of the various modes the Lips have been exploring for the past five years. It’s almost as if the Lips have formed a cover-band-medley version of themselves.Read the full review by Stuart Berman at pitchfork.com
Media/Samples
Heart of the sunrise
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