Oczy Mlody

It leaked

>>70291023
it leaked m8

I expect possibly the worst flaming lips album of all time to be released tomorrow

>>70291052
>>70291055
Welp time to listen to this possible piece of shit when I get home.

>>70291114
I was reminded to listen to it by this thread

just dl'ed it. Listening now

Listening now and this is easily the worst thing they've ever done.

Wow this is bad. The production of some of these electronics is just so awkward and loud. Wayne's vocals are the worst they've ever sounded, the lyrics are horrible, there's no real sense of melodic playfulness or mood at all.

It's like they've tried to pair the electronics of Yoshimi with the stagnant dream pop of the Terror and it just sounds flat and bad. The bass in some of these tracks is unbearable.

>>70291023
huge step back from the terror but it could be worse

hated the singles when they releases but dig em now, get a really sad vibe from everything about the album. Expecting it to be either awful or good, not great.

>>70291269
Yeah...from the three tracks I've heard, the lyrics are abysmal. I feel like Miley had waaaay too much assistance and influence in this shit. Because I think everyone knows how extremely buddy-buddy Wayne and her are.

>>70291334
Sunrise (Eyes of the Young) isn't bad actually

nice throwback to soft bulletin-esque material

however I'm fairly sure the lead melody is from fucking Bad Days

I've hated each of the singles, honestly not going to bother listening to this one all the way through. This may well be their first downright bad studio release in decades.

Link?

>>70291442
>This may well be their first downright bad studio release in decades.
it IS their only bad studio release ever

the Flaming Lips have never made a bad studio album. Until now

>>70291462
slsk

it leaked

>>70291023
I've listened to it two or three times.

It lacks the absolute solid cohesion of The Terror. It is similar in structure though with all the songs built around certain sounds like The Terror/Peace Sword were.

The Terror was a terrifying album. This album seems to be about escapism through substance abuse, and may lack cohesiveness by design. It's definitely trippy.

TBtPR = 9/10
AWWtM = 6/10
Embryonic = 7.5/10
The Terror = 10/10
OM = ~7-8 waiting for it to sink in more

Please somebody post a link

>>70291442
If you hated the singles you will ABHOR this. If you like the singles you'll find it passable.

>>70291269
Pretty spot on. I like it, but I agree with your assessment and will probably not recommend it to anyone despite enjoying it myself.

>>70291598
How on earth could you rate The Terror higher than Embryonic and Yoshimi?

>>70291613
http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/We6ww2vJ/file.html

>>70291598
>This album seems to be about escapism through substance abuse

It's literally acid-addled man has a midlife crisis: the album

>>70291651
some of it is just irredeemable to me, man

like Do Glowy - what is that?

>>70291670
The Terror feels like it was meant for me. I will tell people that the Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi are their two greatest albums but personally, I can't stop listening to the Terror. I was addicted to Yoshimi for years until I heard The Terror.

>>70291670
Also, I like Embryonic but it's too long and I like focus in my FL albums. Embryonic feels schizophrenic.

Is anyone else really sad that we'll never get a proper follow-up to The Terror? I think it's one of the best albums The Flaming Lips have ever made and a few years ago I was really looking forward to them making an album that further explored the dark, droning, krautrocky style that The Terror has. But ever since Wayne hooked up with Miley they've been pumping out bland psychedelic/dream pop.

>>70291672
Ty

I'm a polish guy and this album title is in polish, but with a grammar error - it should be oczy młode (young eyes), not młody

do głowy means to/into head

>>70291672
Is this real

>>70291708
I honestly didn't think much to the Terror.

Really wish Wayne would stop now. It's the end of the road. They were an interesting group to begin with, have had a ridiculously unique career musically, hit their stride in the late 90's, and I was on board with whatever they wanted to do up until about 2014.

After 2014 it's just been a pain to be a Flaming Lips fan. Watching Wayne turn into some kind of demigod asshole, making increasingly embarrassing music.

>>70291770
>I was on board with whatever they wanted to do up until about 2014.
>After 2014 it's just been a pain to be a Flaming Lips fan. Watching Wayne turn into some kind of demigod asshole, making increasingly embarrassing music.
This is exactly how I feel. I really wasn't looking forward to Lipsha but I was willing to tolerate it but once Wayne hooked up with Miley he became completely insufferable and The Flaming Lips went spiraling downhill. Thanks to Wayne, they've devolved into a sad self-parody.

Jesus you're all sad
Have you ever considered the flaming lips don't care what you guys think
They're doing whatever they want and having fun

Am I the only one that's enjoying this? The electronics, bass and just general production feels very classic fl goofy sounding even if its all quite sombre.

>>70291826
Yeah, it's sad that we don't blindly suck Wayne's cock.

>>70291843
That's what I'm trying to say. I would suck his cock if I had the chance.

>>70291826
I'm glad they are, but I can't say the same for myself when I listen to this record.
>>70291827
They're no strangers to warped audio dynamics and other studio trickery, but it only works when they have a melody, or some kind of creative foundation. That's missing on a lot of extremely stagnant, boring songs here

Not looking forward to it at all. The singles were total garbage

>>70291826
Wayne, what are you doing on /mu/? Shouldn't you be fucking Miley right now?

Also if we're being honest the lyrics here are some of the worst I have ever heard.

>>70291865
I still think each song on here is compelling if only for the studio trickery.
Losing the old drummer is a major hit though, none of these songs have any reasonable drive whatsoever.

>>70291921
I don't agree. I think a lot of these songs have extremely obtrusive production without any real strong melody.

Although Wayne is mentally ill enough to carry on the Lips and keep making records, they need to get whatever is out of their system that compels them to make this kind of music fast.

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>>70291598
>10/10
>any Flaming Lips album past the early 90s

>>70291893
This
What the fuck even is Do Glowy

>>70291972
Honestly a fair point, I've never found Waynes songwriting fun, interesting or engaging, other than on embryonic which was effectively just a series of recorded jam sessions.
Still gonna keep it on my normie share list for woaah so trippy reactions.

It's the greatest album of all time

Plebs won't understand of course

>>70292045
look
>>70291752

I've listened to it a few times now, and I am absolutely certain that the lead melody from Sunrise is the same as Bad Days.

https://youtu.be/C9ucmQXY1u4?t=32s
https://youtu.be/4YQh_7LYg-g?t=52s

>>70292076
for me the Lips' songwriting has always been the most attractive thing about the band. from like 1982 all the way to around 2006 (I still liked the ideas on Embryonic).

Although my favorite lips LP is either TSB or Clouds

>>70291827
I kinda like it. It's a little fun.

>>70291023
the flaming lips has been so many bands by now. they're really just a brand with wayne coyne as the mascot

>>70292320
>Radiohead has been so many bands by now. they're really just a brand with wayne coyne as the mascot
this is how dumb you sound

>>70292371
Okay, I meant Thom Yorke

but the point still stands

>>70292320
king crimson has been so many bands by now. they're really just a brand with robert fripp as the mascot

>>70292320
bands have been so many brands ny bow. they're really just brad with david byrne as the bandscot

>>70292371
That anon is being dumb but using Radiohead as an example is really dumb. Their lineup has never ever changed. Better examples are King Crimson, The Rolling Stones, Public Image Ltd. and Deerhunter.

>>70292646
Oh, I thought we was talking stylistically

>>70292695
*he

God, now I do sound dumb

>>70292133
Kek, even the title doesn't make any sense

>>70291708
actually I feel like this is a pretty natural extension from The Terror, it sounds equally depressing but in a different way

>>70293076
depressing for the listener?
depressing for the longtime fans?

>>70293094
no, as in unironically depressing and bleak. I have no idea why people are calling this thing bright and silly, this album is about prescription opioid abuse

>>70291269
>The production of some of these electronics is just so awkward and loud.

That's been Dave Fridmann's production technique all round for the Lips since At War With the Mystics and it sucks. I actually laugh when people for some reason believe that Embryonic has good production.

>>70293338
As a follow on I'm about to listen to it for the first time now in FLAC using decent headphones. Let's see how good the production is this time.

>>70293338
difference is At War With the Mystics was a silly, fun pop album messing around with sonics.

OM is depressing because it's fucking boring

>>70293397
Where'd you get the flacs?

>>70293486
Apollo

>>70293565
Is that a transcode? Someone posts the freqs and it looks like one.

>>70292024
The 90s were far from their peak years. Yoshimi and Embryonic both easily top anything during that era.

>>70293672
lol

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>>70293592
Looks fine to me

>>70293702
There are frequencies topping out at 16k, and there's a larger halo around 18-20k. That looks like a transcode.

>>70291023
>Not only was Miley Cyrus featured on it
>When it hit the auto-tune

this does't really matter

>>70293338

Embryonic is a fucking masterpiece, don't know what you're on about.

I'm currently on Listening to the Frogs. I second the guy who said this is more like The Terror. Really downbeat, atmospheric stuff. Yeah, some of these lyrics are pretty retarded and this isn't Wayne's best vocal work, and both of those factors hold it back from being a great FLips album.

#legalize

>>70294372
Good music, production is ass.

>>70295118

it's noise rock, it's not supposed to sound clean/crisp or something.

>>70295200
>Flaming Lips
>Embryonic
>noise rock

lol

>>70295380

well what is it then?

>>70295420
Post-Psychedelic Janglegaze

>>70291023

Considering I only seriously enjoy their Embryonic/Terror era stuff, trying to going back to that Soft Bulletin/Yoshimi sound is losing me pretty hard, even if it does retain some Embryonic/Terror detail. Not even sure if I'll give it a listen as none of the singles have really captivated me.

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What most of you guys don't seem to understand is that they're embracing this generic Miley Cyrus pop hedonism BDSM for a reason... they're swimming in the aesthetic of mainstream pop bravado, classic flaming lips psychedelia, and disgusting lack of morality that goes with commercialism. The use of diarhea brown on the album cover contrasts with the sugary magenta, get it? It's like how most "artistic" musicians are constantly using the same form of punk criticism on pop music, the flaming lips are trying something different, diving into this fairy-tale land corrupted by constant drug-fueled orgies, munchkins and pixies fucking unicorns in the ass with lollipops. That kind of thing. There's a sadness to that, I think.

>>70296308
I think you're giving Wayne way too much credit. For the last few years he has unironically been a hedonistic attention whore. I don't think the album is some commentary on commercialism, I think it just reflects what Wayne has devolved into.

>>70296308
It's not the aesthetic or concepts that I can't get into on this record, it's the tepid ass music. I don't know, maybe it's a grower.

Wayne Coyne lost all self awareness. He played a role for so long that it became his actual personality

Zaireeka>The Terror>Soft Bulletin>AWWtM>Ebryonic>Yoshimi

>>70291670
Not the same guy, but the depressing cohesiveness of the Terror is really great to get lost in. Yoshimi is good, but is entry-level.

>>70291670
I think it's reasonable to rate it higher than Embryonic. Embryonic had a tendency to ramble and lack focus. It's great, but The Terror was an amazing, depressing unit.

>>70293199
Honestly, I can't give them that much credit. It's just not there in the music or the lyrics. This sounds like something that that one ultra-pot head from high school---you know, the guy who acted obnoxiously like he was a throwback to Woodstock and flaunted it---would dream up and think was awesome.

>>70296677
>For the last few years he has unironically been a hedonistic attention whore. I don't think the album is some commentary on commercialism, I think it just reflects what Wayne has devolved into.

This is Wayne in a nutshell. He's not making a statement. He's now just a creepy old guy who started hanging with a younger girl and now he thinks he's hip to what all the kids are in to.

I quit 4 tracks in, it really sucks.

>>70297035
He's like a real-life Randy from The Residents.

>>70296677
While I agree that Wayne is experiencing a mid-life crisis, he does explain the album's concept in interviews, about everyone partying in a fairytale land, having sex on unicorns while high on a drug called "Oczy Mlody."

>>70297811
Just because it has a concept doesn't mean (a) it's a good concept or (b) it's executed well.

On paper, Yoshimi could've been a shittastic concept or amazing. The execution was amazing.

On paper, this album could be shitty or fantastic. Unfortunately, it's just shitty. This is the worst example of people on drugs thinking they're funny or deep or innovative, but they're just fucking spinning their tires.

>>70297910
>On paper, Yoshimi could've been a shittastic concept or amazing. The execution was amazing.
But Yoshimi wasn't a concept album.

I-I like it...

>>70297910
I like the concept thought, maybe I'm just thinking of it differently than how it's intended. Reminds me of like a fucked-up Michael Jackon-esque fantasy a la Neverland gone wrong. And I don't really like Yoshimi or Soft Bulletin that much, which is what the album apparently draws from. That's all just my opinion though. This isn't my favorite Lips album, but I wouldn't just call it shitty.

>>70291023
is that robert beatty album art????

One Night While Hunting for Faeries and Witches and Wizards to Kill is a fucking great song

the rest of this album is a disaster, feels like they did 75% of the work to make something great and then just phoned the rest in. it's really frustrating because so many elements of it almost work

this is like the Prometheus of music, and like that film it will probably gain a cult following of staunch defenders

>>70293338
It's supposed to be awkward and loud. It's supposed to sound "fucked up," like the whole "magical psychedelia gone wrong" aesthetic.

>>70299474
Ya

>>70293199
Jesus. Someone finally gets it.

>>70299580
yep. Wayne even explicitly said the title was (phonetically) supposed to be reminiscent of oxycodone.

I don't think this is their best by a long shot, but I really don't get the extreme backlash from people on here. I think the production is actually pretty good, but I do agree that the vocals are just off at times, and the lyrics are all over the place, admittedly not very good imo

>>70293199
>this album is about prescription opioid abuse
that's what i thought going in. Wayne said one of the reasons he picked Oczy Mlody as the title was because it sounded like "oxycontin melody"

Unfortunately, I have heard little evidence for this in the music and lyrics itself.

>>70299733
Yeah, Wayne said that the a lot of the album is meaningless lyrically, specifically "How??" I totally adore the lyrics in "Sunrise" though.

>>70299751
he said in an interview that the album was supposed to be about a wealthy gated community where everyone takes Oczy Mlody to make their problems go away

>>70299751
i think it's pretty apparent in the music itself, the whole album has this sedate, numb feeling like an opiate high

>>70295380
Certain tracks have elements of noise rock, like the opener

>>70298006
u wot

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>>70291023
I expected to hate this but I'm actually really enjoying it. Some of the singles work better in context with the rest of the record. For me the whole album sounds like it's trying to have a similar sound to The Soft Bullentin and Yoshimi where it's is constantly trying to be happy and cheerful but there's an underlining of darkness and depression through. Those records always had this sense of optimism and this one feels the exact opposite. This is a surprisingly solid ending to this whole "Dark Album Trilogy" or whatever you want to call it. It's sits quite nicely next to Embryonic and The Terror. Feeling like a solid 7 out of 10 right now.

Downloading it now. Sunrise wasn't actually bad and i really enjoyed playing it occasionally. But Wayne gotta get away from Hannah Montana.

>>70300657
I wonder where he got the inspiration to write about that?

>>70301205
The Castle works especially good in the context of the rest of the album. But that might just be because the rest of the album is pretty average, especially Listening to the Frongs which immediately leads into The Castle.

more than halfway through it now, definitely not a bad project.
feelin a 7-8. I'm also biased as a super-fan, but if you think this is their 'worst' album you should probably check out their first two studio albums, At War With The Mystics, or any of their collab albums.

I think realistically this album will fall similiary to AWWTM in terms of popularity and appeal. Will probably get a 6.8/10 from Pitchfork.

>>70303051
Fantano will probably review this strictly due to lack of interesting content in January, will give it a strong 5

>>70303051
AWWTM at least had the potential for radio hits like with The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song and Free Radicals. Oczy Mlody doesn't even really have that.

I'm not exactly a super-fan, though I have seen them live three times in the last four years and hope to see them again in March. Out of everything post-Zaireeka which is mainly where I've stuck to, Oczy Mlody just barely beats out AWWTM which is my last favorite (again, post-Zaireeka). But that's not saying much as AWWTM is still a very good album in my mind. OM just feels so unfocused and lacks any sort of bite or surprise. Still an enjoyable listen and I can't wait to get off work tomorrow afternoon, light a bowl, and listen to this album as it's probably meant to be enjoyed.

>>70303228
*my least favorite

>>70303228
If i ever hear the YYY Song I Will Shoot Myself

This is by far their worst album. Slowed down acid EDM mashed up with orchestras and hip hop beats. It's old man's first DAW.

>>70303865
>DAW
What?

>>70304009
digital audio workstation à la frooty loops

>>70303601
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song is good, senpai.

>>70299348
damn...