Flaming Lips “Embryronic”
Standouts - “The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine,” “The Ego’s Last Stand,” “The Impulse”

Just when you think you know what to expect from a Flaming Lips record, they drop “Embryronic,” their weirdest and debatably best album in a decade. It may take a couple of listens to settle in, but like some paranoid angry cousin to 1999’s “The Soft Bulletin,” there really isn’t a wasted second or bad song. The fact that it’s a double album speaks volumes.