*Modern Guilt=totally impeccable & enjoyable album by one of my favorite artists but “impeccable” is apples & oranges from the manic creativity of my favorite work by Beck. In terms of its significance, is The Terror going to be more like Modern Guilt* or is it going to be like Paralytic Stalks†? Years from now I’ll be able to tell if it’s also one of my favorite Flaming Lips’ albums.īy “one of my favorite Flaming Lips’ albums etc.,” I mean it’s definitely in the top five, but is it all the way up at the top with Soft Bulletin? Will I say “Listen to Soft Bulletin for when you’re on top of the world and in good company but keep The Terror for periods of solitude and introspection?”īut I’m biased because I’ve listened to the album a dozen times in the past week. What I have to say is way more autistically specific than what any of these guys are talking about and really has more to do with the psychodynamics of Space Opera than it has to do with music.īut before I get into all of the psychodynamic Space Opera stuff, to avoid ambiguity, let me just go on the record saying that I think that The Terror is probably the most interesting Flaming Lips album I’ve had the pleasure of fully engaging with at the time of its release. And you will still wonder, “Am I losing it? Am I? Losing it?” And what you do when you get there is anyone’s guess because very few have made it that far. I think “The Terror” is the kind of thing you put together when you realize you’re getting older and you ask yourself-wait, have I still got it? Am I losing it? It’s the Scott Walker effect: if you keep getting better and better and weirder and weirder, more and more free, even as you get older and older–instead of mellowing–you will eventually come to a place of great darkness. “The Terror deals in more personal turmoil– loneliness, depression, anxiety… Perhaps not coincidentally, the album was preceded by news of Coyne’s separation from his partner of 25 years, Michelle, and of multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd relapsing temporarily.”( Pitchfork) “”The lyrics find cosmic repercussions in a lovers’ breakup loneliness turns to contemplation of grim human compulsions and the end of the universe…”(New York Times) “I was depressed for days… in a good way.” (New York Times) From the opening static blips to the closing reverberated echoing noise, the new record is an atonal, aimless cloud of darkness.”(KEXP) “With The Terror, the Lips take bleak to new levels. “A sort of anti-tour-de-force”(Pop Matters) “A general sense of gloom and unease pervades the entire the record.”(Paste)
Here’s what some other people have said about The Terror: All images in this post are quoted from Dreadstar under fair use, created by the great auteur Jim Starlin
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