The Flaming Lips Embryonic

3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he Lips have always been able to subvert pie-eyed whimsy with a sense of homespun beauty, and there's plenty of that here too."
"EMBRYONIC finds these wild-eyed Okies sounding even more adventurous nd less eager to please than at any time since 1997's four-cd experimental sonic goof ZAIREEKA."
Ranked #28 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2009" -- "[The album] slowly crystallizes into a force of claustrophobic beauty..."
"[A] heady stew of fuzzed-out satellite transmissions, jazzy spaz-outs, and enthusiastic animal noises..." -- Grade: B
4.5 stars out of 5 -- "EMBRYONIC is an album full of little revolutions -- a trippier, noisier, more experimental journey than the Flaming Lips have taken in forever..."
Billboard (p.61) - "For some longtime Lips fans, the band's 12th studio album, EMBRYONIC, will be hailed as a welcome return to the experimental, psychedelic form of its early years."
Paste (magazine) - "[A]n ambitious double-disc acid-haze epic. The album's somber menacing tone never recedes, leaving Coyne to play apocalyptic preacher over the fuzzy noisebox of vintage Lips, and Floydian space jams."
4 stars out of 5 -- "The Flaming Lips' jam-based approach to EMBRYONIC has provided a birthing point for their most chaotic but arguably consistently thematic record."
Clash (Magazine) - "EMBRYONIC is all about the band's more impulsive, spontaneous side....The Flaming Lips have returned with a truly great piece of work..."