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8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 113 Ratings

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  1. Sep 25, 2020
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    At War With the Mystics was a great political side of Flaming Lips and was such an excellent album. I don't know what happened but this album tries too many different sounds that do not work. This is one of the worst albums they have ever done.
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81

Universal acclaim - based on 33 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 28 out of 33
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  1. Although I gather there's a concept here, knowing what it is might ruin the gently wigged-out dystopianism the lyrics cozy up to. More important, it might undercut the otherwise irreducible pleasures of their exploding guitars, unworldly synths, and crazy drums.
  2. Little about Embryonic is clear-cut or straightforward -- these noisy, pensive, sometimes meandering songs take awhile to decipher and often feel like they're still in the process of becoming. These very qualities, however, make these songs some of the Flaming Lips most haunting and intriguing music in some time.
  3. Embryonic is not as strange as "Zaireeka,'' the Lips' play-four-CDs-at-the-same-time experiment, but it's up there. On the other hand, Embryonic is completely absorbing. It grows on you in a way that the earlier records simply cannot do.