COOKING VINYL
A collaboration between Deap Vally and The Flaming Lips, tonally, this album sits far closer to the latter band’s camp. The back-to-basics scuzzy guitar rock of Deap Vally takes a backseat in favour of a mixture of experimental pop, esoteric noises, wonky melodies and dreamy worlds to inhabit. However, Wayne Coyne is largely absent vocally, so it falls to Lindsey Troy to take on the lead role. The end result certainly possesses a unique quality in terms of collaborative output - you won’t hear another record like it in 2020. However, it’s a pretty scattered, unrealised album that feels more like disparate bits and bobs pulled together to force out a finished record after they landed on a few songs that kind of worked. There’s probably a nice EP to be plucked out of this lot, but as a full long player it falls short.