The Flaming Lips are less than a month away from releasing their new album The Terror, though they’ve already managed the implausible feat of performing first single “Sun Blows Up Today” in a Super Bowl commercial. The next song we’ve heard from The Terror also concerns most earthlings’ favorite flaming ball of gas, but it’s considerably tenser and noisier than its predecessor. Album opener “Look… The Sun Is Rising” is an eerie, clanking thing that would’ve fit perfectly well into Embryonic, and you can hear it at NPR.
The Terror is out 4/1 on Bella Union/Warner Bros.
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well, this is pretty brilliant. Now looking even more forward to this album.
FYI: Sun Blows Up Today is just a bonus track on the iTunes version/maybe other versions but isn’t really part of the album so I wouldn’t say it’s the first single from the album. The rest of the album is (according to the band) not like Sun Blows Up Today at all.
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I can see the argument for it technically, but I think from a creative standpoint the album is how the artist defines it, which is likely without the bonus tracks that are being put on for marketing purposes. They’re sold with the album.
My point was pedantic though and it doesn’t really matter. The bigger point is that The Terror sounds nothing like Sun Blows Up Today.
This is a pretty intriguing track, but I’d say at this point I could do without that guitar in the left channel for the most part.