Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Reviews4.5 stars out of 5 -- "EMBRYONIC is an album full of little revolutions -- a trippier, noisier, more experimental journey than the Flaming Lips have taken in forever...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "The Flaming Lips' jam-based approach to EMBRYONIC has provided a birthing point for their most chaotic but arguably consistently thematic record.", "EMBRYONIC is all about the band's more impulsive, spontaneous side....The Flaming Lips have returned with a truly great piece of work...", "An ambitious double-disc acid-haze epic. The album's somber menacing tone never recedes, leaving Coyne to play apocalyptic preacher over the fuzzy noisebox of vintage Lips, and Floydian space jams.", "A heady stew of fuzzed-out satellite transmissions, jazzy spaz-outs, and enthusiastic animal noises..." -- Grade: B, Ranked #28 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2009" -- "The album slowly crystallizes into a force of claustrophobic beauty...", "For some longtime Lips fans, the band's 12th studio album, EMBRYONIC, will be hailed as a welcome return to the experimental, psychedelic form of its early years.", "EMBRYONIC finds these wild-eyed Okies sounding even more adventurous nd less eager to please than at any time since 1997's four-cd experimental sonic goof ZAIREEKA.", 3 stars out of 5 -- "The Lips have always been able to subvert pie-eyed whimsy with a sense of homespun beauty, and there's plenty of that here too."