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The Terror
Rock · 2013 · 12 tracks · 2h 7m

The Terror

The Flaming Lips

A stark departure into bleak, monochromatic psychedelia. Ditching joy for dread, it uses cold synthesizers and motorik rhythms to explore existential isolation.

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It's the Flaming Lips album for when you're too depressed for the confetti and just want to melt into the floor.

A relentless, claustrophobic exploration of existential dread and isolation.

The Terror · vs · The Flaming Lips
Breathy+3.3σ

The vocals lean far further into breathy than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 2h 7m
01
Look... The Sun Is Rising
5:12
02
Be Free, a Way
5:13
03
Try to Explain
5:00
04
You Lust
13:03
05
The Terror
6:22
06
You Are Alone
3:45
07
Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die
7:31
08
Turning Violent
4:16
09
Always There, in Our Hearts
4:15
10
The Terror (full album)
54:58
11
Sun Blows Up Today
3:08
12
We Don’t Control the Controls (Mashed‐the‐F‐Up‐remix)
14:36
Moments Worth Waiting For
The relentless, thirteen-minute hypnotic pulse of 'You Lust' that feels like a slow descent into a digital abyss.
The sudden, jarring burst of distorted noise that opens 'Look... The Sun Is Rising', signaling the end of the band's technicolor era.
Wayne Coyne's fragile, almost broken vocal delivery on 'Try to Explain' over a bed of decaying synthesizers.
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