

The dense and difficult Zaireka was released as a limited edition (due to its bulky four-disc packaging) and was never available for streaming or download. The two recordings represent the polar extremes of the Lips canon.
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Then, just two years later, the Lips distilled all that free exploration into the pristine orchestral rock of The sweet newsletter.

Released in 1997, Zaireka was the play-at-home version of these site-specific events, featuring eight unwieldy songs spread across four CDs that were designed to be played simultaneously on four different players. creative limits of being a guitar-rock band – by conducting various band experiences synchronized with fleets of car radios and boombox battalions. After their underperforming 1995 album Metallic Taste Clouds failed to produce another “She Don’t Use Jelly” and guitarist Ronald Jones checked out, remaining members Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins and Steven Drozd freed themselves from the pressure of songwriting and songwriting. alternative rock and turned into a pied-à-porte to the piping megaphones of the 21st century festival circuit. In the Flaming Lips’ four-decade career, there has been no turning point more crucial than the period from 1996 to 1999, when the Oklahoma band narrowly escaped their impending has-been fate.
