Flaming Lips: Zaireeka (Warner Bros.)
Keith Cameron, NME, 3 January 1998
IN THE REALM OF musicological discourse, the term 'genius' has been overused virtually to the point of obsoletion. So it bears stating at the outset that with Zaireeka the Flaming Lips are threatening to reinvest the notion with its original resonance.
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