Flaming Lips : Embryonic

2009 album from the Alt-Rock heroes, their 12th album overall. Embryonic is also their most ambitious album to date, recorded and envisioned as a double album that can take it's rightful place beside The White Album, Physical Graffiti, The Wall and others. After lauded indie albums, The Flaming Lips debuted on Warner Bros. with 1991's Hit To Death In The Future Head. Transmissions From The Satellite Heart and Clouds Taste Metallic followed. 1999's The Soft Bulletin topped numerous year-end best-of lists and helped rank the band among the most influential in the world. 2002's Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots ranked #4 in Spin and #11 in NME on their end-of-year lists, and won a Grammyr. Most recently, the band's full length feature film and score album Christmas On Mars received critical acclaim at screenings across the country in 2008.