![]() ![]() The following year brought their album(s) “Zarieka,” a four-CD set with all four meant to be played simultaneously. In that experiment, Coyne “directed” 40 cars, each playing specially crafted music from their tape decks. Take 1996’s “The Parking Lot Project,” for example. But I have been tricked again into forgiving you.”Ĭoyne insists this is not a concept album, but it’s hard to believe him, since he and his cronies have taken part in more than one high (as a kite)-concept idea. On the album’s best track, “Are You a Hypnotist?” he sings, his voice drenched in delay: “I have forgiven you for tricking me again. ![]() Crisp acoustic guitar riffs are sprinkled sparingly over the digital effluvium, making Coyne’s whiny falsetto sound like a sedated Neil Young being probed by aliens in an X-Files outtake.Īfter 13 years with the Lips, Coyne can still turn a phrase. It’s the same peyote-flavored cotton candy as “Bulletin,” but with the fingers of the Lips’ brainchild, Wayne Coyne, stroking soundboards more often than strings. Fans of their dreamier work will be pleased, as the lo-fi guitar crunch has been almost fully replaced with multi-layered production and saccharine dementia.
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