(Video is not safe for work!!) My #1 album of 2013 was The Terror by the Flaming Lips. I've followed the Oklahoma City eccentrics for 25 years; this is the first time I ranked them so highly. They have gone through many phases, and frankly my interest started waning in 1999 when the group started focusing as much attention on their carnival sideshow stylings as on the music. When they released The Terror it was a sea change. A bleak, dark atmosphere of nearly ambient music, predicated on this rambling statement by Coyne: "We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on...we just go on…there is no mercy killing." The truth in this brutal assessment appealed to me and the album delivered on it strongly. The Terror is their best album in ages.   9

noyoucmon 23 Sep 2015