An admirably crazed concept album...An admirably crazed concept album featuring wormholes, spaceships and space bibles, *Electric Würms* is an inspired side-project from Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd of *The Flaming Lips*.
In real terms it’s six songs of heavily percussive, ecstatic psychedelia reminiscent of Can and Zappa. Skittering drums and vocoders, conjuring ’50s sci-fi, collide with a melee of hi-hats, manipulated flutes, tearing metal and Gong-like mushroom-infused melodic meanderings produced with dizzying compression.
It ends on a high, a discordantly kosmische cover of Yes’s epic ‘Heart Of The Sunrise’, in a melancholy Syd Barrett style (listen below), ditching the divisive noodly prog and retaining the ethereally beautiful melody. A surprisingly cerebral triumph.
*7/10*
Words: *Anna Wilson*
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