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American Head
Rock · 2020 · 13 tracks · 50m

American Head

The Flaming Lips

A warm, hazy retreat into midwestern nostalgia. Piano-led psych-folk that trades galactic explosions for intimate, drug-dappled family memories.

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It's like The Soft Bulletin but with more pedal steel and a lot more stories about growing up in Oklahoma.

A tender, drug-dappled reflection on family and the ghosts of a midwestern upbringing.

American Head · vs · The Flaming Lips
Golden Hour+4.0σ

Golden Hour saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 50m
01
Will You Return / When You Come Down
5:21
02
Watching the Lightbugs Glow
2:53
03
Flowers of Neptune 6
4:31
04
Dinosaurs on the Mountain
3:38
05
At the Movies on Quaaludes
3:41
06
Mother I’ve Taken LSD
3:48
07
Brother Eye
4:23
08
You n Me Sellin’ Weed
4:57
09
Mother Please Don’t Be Sad
3:36
10
When We Die When We’re High
3:39
11
Assassins of Youth
4:12
12
God and the Policeman
2:28
13
My Religion Is You
3:33
Moments Worth Waiting For
The heartbreaking piano melody and swelling strings on Mother Please Don't Be Sad that feel like a final goodbye.
The way Kacey Musgraves' ethereal backing vocals blend into the hazy synth wash of Flowers of Neptune 6.
The sudden, heavy drum fill that anchors the drifting, druggy atmosphere of At the Movies on Quaaludes.
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