![]() ![]() ![]() “Race For The Prize” is both epic and completely ridiculous, a balance The Soft Bulletin strikes throughout its hourlong runtime. You couldn’t listen to it unless you had four CD players and at least one friend on hand - or made very creative use of your own appendages - but if you did manage to hear Zaireeka, you got an inkling of the Lips who’d emerge on The Soft Bulletin two years later. This led to 1997’s Zaireeka, an album released on four discs designed to be played all at once. After guitarist Ronald Jones departed, Coyne and drummer Steven Drozd cooked up a series of stunts called the Parking Lot Experiments, ambitious compositions comprising dozens of cassettes designed to be played simultaneously through car stereos in a parking garage. The band had been inching away from the revved-up psych-pop formulation that yielded surprise hit “She Don’t Use Jelly” ever since the commercial failure of 1995’s Clouds Taste Metallic (which may be the real best Flaming Lips album depending on your mood). Its brilliance might have caught people off guard, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. ![]()
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