Thanks to the superb stylish orchestrations created by Denver multi-instrumentalist Tom Hager of DeVotchka, the army of additional performers manage to complement these cuts instead of competing with the band’s epic concept piece about life, love, disillusionment and death. WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE? The best-sounding drug trip you’ve ever taken. And not just any live album: As the overly wordy, on-the-nose title The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre Featuring the Colorado Symphony Orchestra & Andre de Ridder makes painfully clear, this majestically maximalist 2016 live recording finds The Flaming Lips recreating the American version of their 1999 breakthrough disc The Soft Bulletin in full and in order, with the technicolour backing of a 68-piece symphony orchestra and 57-piece chorus.
WHAT IS THIS? The first official live release of their three decade-plus career, believe it or not.
W HO ARE THEY? The fearlessly freaky, artfully psychedelic and mind-bendingly theatrical Oklahoma oddballs fronted by corkscrew-maned frontman/ringleader Wayne Coyne.
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