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The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin

Barney Hoskyns, Spin, July 1999

"PSYCHEDELIA" has undergone some curious convolutions since its Haight-Ashbury heyday. For the most part, though, the hallucinogens have gone, leaving a purely musical residue - a trail of sonic exploration that leads from Todd Rundgren’s A Wizard, A True Star to the Olivia Tremor Control’s Black Foliage: Animation Music.

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