NME Reviews

Album review: The Flaming Lips - 'Embryonic'

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:34:34 +0100

Back in touch with their dark side for a brilliantly unhinged masterpiece

The Flaming Lips/Gnarls Barkley: University Of Southern California, LA; Sunday, Dec 31, 2006

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:12:25 +0000

Confetti, giant bananas and spacemen: it’s New Year’s Eve Wayne Coyne style

The Flaming Lips, Royal Albert Hall, London: Saturday April 22

Fri, 05 May 2006 12:23:15 +0100

The weirdest show on earth rolls into town. And this time it’s war!

The Flaming Lips: The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:34:05 +0100

The politics of the playpen

The Flaming Lips: At War With The Mystics

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:27:11 +0100

Space is the place for Lips album Number 12

Flaming Lips : Glasgow Barrowland

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:05:00 +0000

...one of the most stupid and yet deeply pleasurable things NME's seen for ages...

Flaming Lips : Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt 1

Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:53:00 +0000

A beauty

Flaming Lips : Do You Realize??

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:40:00 +0100

A million Christmas carols poured into a cosmic jelly mould

Flaming Lips : Edinburgh Queen's Hall

Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:49:00 +0100

A band in love with the very sad-happy crux of existence

Flaming Lips : Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Tue, 09 Jul 2002 07:31:00 +0100

...try to name another band who have lasted ten albums, each one more visionary than the last. Can't, can you?...

Benicassim International Festival : Benicassim, Spain

Tue, 07 Aug 2001 10:56:00 +0100

The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Basement Jaxx, Orbital, Belle & Sebastian and more play Spain's biggest summer festival...

Boston Roxy

Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:02:21 +0100

A "supersonic flux invented in the future, blowin' up so hard you can hear it before it happens"...

London South Bank Royal Festival Hall

Tue, 23 May 2000 07:00:39 +0100

...all bands should ride the tornado like this. Over the rainbow. Over the moon. ..

London South Bank Royal Festival Hall

Mon, 15 May 2000 08:46:04 +0100

It's a tribute to [b]City Slang[/b] that Ohio's lysergic sons should play a show in their honour..,a decade after leaving the label...

London Kentish Town Forum

Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:51:44 +0000

Most endearing of all, though, are [B]Wayne[/B]'s attempts at demystifying [B]The Flaming Lips[/B]' art: he actually apologises for the sad songs and thanks everyone repeatedly for liking his band

Flaming Lips : Race for the prize

Sat, 12 Jun 1999 17:16:00 +0100

[B]'Race For The Prize'[/B] feels like the work of people who've suddenly discovered a new way of breathing, and are decent enough to want to share their excitement with the rest of us.

The Soft Bulletin

Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:33:10 +0100

In 15 years [B]The Flaming Lips[/B] have been broken apart and put back together again more times than a children's jigsaw.

Austin La Zona Rosa

Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:03:41 +0000

[B]The Flaming Lips[/B] are making music that no-one else is anywhere near to touching intricate, melodic and starkly beautiful...