Big songs, big arrangements, big productions, big mixing. It feels to me like religious music from the future that's like this distorted melody coming from somewhere else in the universe and we're just sort of collecting them, and I think it's almost exclusively this new record is about an internal fear, and an internal sadness about living/oblivion. When I hear it I can't quite describe what it is. It's like I almost have to hear it, and go "oh I know exactly what you mean." it's not something that can be spoken about without the music -- it's about fear, and it's about love, and it's about this idea that the more you embrace something, the more that you have to lose if it isn't there. What we're saying is that if we don't embrace our life, or the things that we love, or the things that we care about, if we don't embrace them all the way, we're not going to have this great life.
But if we embrace them all the way we run the risk that they may not be what we thought they were and they may not like us or we may lose them and we're despairing. So we're in this quagmire, this is what this music's about, this quagmire reaching all the way, that the risk involved is the downfall of reaching all the way as well.
I would say I think it could be the best Flaming Lips records that could ever be made.
