American Head by The Flaming Lips (Vinyl, 2020, 2LP, Warner Bros) *NEW*

Description: American Head by The Flaming Lips [Double Vinyl LP] [Gatefold Jacket] Track Listing: 1 Will You Return / When You Come Down2 Watching The Lightbugs Glow3 Flowers Of Neptune 64 Dinosaurs On The Mountain5 At The Movies On Quaaludes6 Mother I've Taken LSD7 Brother Eye8 You N Me Sellin' Weed9 Mother Please Don't Be Sad10 When We Die When We're High11 Assassins Of Youth12 God And The Policeman13 My Religion Is YouDouble vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. 2020 release. AMERICAN HEAD is the best and most consistent studio album from The Flaming Lips since the release of their most successful brace of albums. The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. Similar to those albums, the 13 songs on American Head are classically structured and features the same sonic and production qualities. Kacey Musgraves (a fan who covers "Do You Realize" in her live set) is featured on "God And The Policeman". --- 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 Clyne'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, AllMusic Shipping^ - Order typically "ships" within a business day after receipt of cleared payment ("Delivery" information provided below). "FREE Shipping" via USPS Media Mail** (delivery may take up to 3-4 weeks. Other delivery options available at check out.*). Buyer responsible for correct shipping address. MOWC only ships to verified/valid shipping addresses. No International or P. O. Box shipping. NOTE(S): * - Additional Fees May Apply. ^ - Shipping and Delivery defined: "Shipping" occurs upon the transfer of the sold item from the seller to the courier. Upon the item's transfer the item is considered "shipped". 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