<p>Glance at this album’s artwork and your brainy-matter might flash on any number of <strong>Flaming Lips</strong> record covers. For good reason: This Oklahoma quartet is led by <strong>Dennis Coyne</strong>, nephew to Wayne, and his bandmates have made up the Lips’ roadcrew in the past. Which is nice and all, but what if you, like me, really don’t care much for the Lips’ music? Fear not—this swirling modern-psych record’s just plain good, and the links between the groups (hard to imagine these guys would’ve found their way to Warner Bros. otherwise) matter not, because <strong>Stardeath and White Dwarfs</strong> really don’t sound inspired (musically) by the Lips, or anything else more specific than just the whole wide world of music. Light and dark, heavy and bright, fresh-faced but preternaturally wise, and really ambitious overall (considering all the overt weed and escape references), <cite>The Birth</cite> is, as Lips drummer <strong>Kliph Scurlock</strong> has said, just a great debut album by a band with a wide-open future ahead, so long as the world doesn’t end. (M.L. Thrope)</p>2009-06-10T20:52:14-04:00stardeath-and-white-dwarfs-the-birth7027832Music2009-06-10T20:52:14-04:00Stardeath and White Dwarfs: The Birth2009-06-10T20:53:58-04:00Warner Bros.pop, psychedelic, rock, stoner
Glance at this album's artwork and your brainy-matter might flash on any number of *Flaming Lips* record covers. For good reason: This Oklahoma quartet is led by *Dennis Coyne*, nephew to Wayne, and his bandmates have made up the Lips' roadcrew in the past. Which is nice and all, but what if you, like me, really don't care much for the Lips' music? Fear not -- this swirling modern-psych record's just plain good, and the links between the groups (hard to imagine these guys would've found their way to Warner Bros. otherwise) matter not, because *Stardeath and White Dwarfs* really don't sound inspired (musically) by the Lips, or anything else more specific than just the whole wide world of music. Light and dark, heavy and bright, fresh-faced but preternaturally wise, and really ambitious overall (considering all the overt weed and escape references), ??The Birth?? is, as Lips drummer *Kliph Scurlock* has said, just a great debut album by a band with a wide-open future ahead, so long as the world doesn't end. (M.L. Thrope)
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