The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends

The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
Critic Score
Based on 31 reviews
2012 Ratings: #697 / 1118
User Score
Based on 87 ratings
2012 Rank: #300
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CRITIC REVIEWS

82
Pitchfork

Therein lies the key to approaching Heady Fwends: What at first seems rather silly actually proves to be quite purposeful.

78
Beats Per Minute

The triumph of Heady Fwends lies the way it sands off the rough edges off 2011’s excess and whittles an honest, enjoyable set out of the mire while coaxing a wealth of unexpected voices into the fray without losing its way.

Stankysauce
80

Edit: honestly this is growing on me a LOT

What is 2012? That riff sounds like shit. Kesha sounds kind of annoying on here too. That refrain sounds pretty interesting though, I like the effects on the vocals, the psychedelic synth chords later on are cool too. But really I'm just DIGGING for anything good in this song, and I'm coming out with virtually nothing. This really isn't an amazing track.
Ashes in the Air is also mega underwhelming. The glitchy percussion sounds awful. The vocals are ... read more

80

The collaborators aren't really doing their own signature sounds on this record, but they certainly are doing something well in this incredibly heady dreamscape of an album.

MagnetoJenkins
80

Always been a fan of this.

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Added on: April 21, 2012