When the Flaming Lips played this at the Pitchfork Music Festival this summer it immediately stood out. Even among classic Lips tracks "Silver Trembling Hands" caught your attention. After years of writing slight forgettable pop tunes for Hewett Packard commercials and bromance movie soundtracks the song announced a return to form. Dark, claustrophobic, thanks to a krautrocky verse structure, and topped off with a gorgeous bit of space rock for the chorus, it was enough to make you forget that the Lips haven't sounded this vital in nearly a decade.
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that's some shitty cover art!
If you saw their live act it would somehow make sense, but out of context, you are right.
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