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Flaming Lips: Album By Album

Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, June 2008

THINGS HAVE CHANGED monumentally for the Flaming Lips over the course of their 23-year career. "We were just dorks who liked music," says sonic ringmaster Wayne Coyne of their earliest experiments in off-kilter indie rock; now their beautifully orchestrated mega-productions are a little less weird, but no less magical.

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