I found it odd the song fades right after the lyric, “everyone you know someday will die,” yet we soon learn it’s rather fitting; despite a title that screams “erotic thriller,” the film actually is about a mother grieving over the loss of her child. Making a miserable situation worse is that the woman, Emilia […]
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Steven Boone — Rockabye Baby!: Lullaby Renditions of The Flaming Lips
New to the former is Steven Boone’s “Lullaby Renditions of the Flaming Lips.” It is just that: instrumental covers of the Lips catalogue, but played largely on a calming, tinkling vibraphone, and slowed to a soothing pace that’ll relax even those of us who have mastered the art of not peeing our pants. As someone […]
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Steven Drozd — The Heart Is a Drum Machine
Steven Drozd — The Heart Is a Drum Machine The Flaming Lips are incredibly self-contained; the members rarely do side projects. So it’s with great interest that multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd’s score for the music documentary “The Heart Is a Drum Machine” appears, as the Lips’ resident music genius hasn’t released his own stuff (ignoring studio […]