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{{Infobox album| | Name = Gummy Song Skull EP | Artist = The Flaming Lips | Cover = | Released = April 2011 | Recorded = April 2011 | Genre = Experimental Rock
Psychedelic Rock | Length = 25:04 | Label = Warner Bros. Records Lovely Sorts of Death | Producer = The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann

Gummy Song Skull EP The Gummy Song Skull EP was released by the psychedelic rock band The Flaming Lips in March 2011. It was the third release as part of the Flaming Lips' goal of releasing music every month for a year.

Concept

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The Gummy Song Skull is a seven-pound human skull made of gummy bear material, inside of which is a brain made of the same material. Contained within this brain is a flashdrive with four Flaming Lips songs.

Release

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In early 2011 The Flaming Lips contacted a company based in Raleigh,North Carolina known for making large and unorthodox items out of gummy bear material about the possibility and logistics of releasing a gummy skull. As it turned out, the owner of the company was fan of the band's music, and therefore was enthusiastic about the project. By early April 2011, gummy skulls were being sold at several record stores around the midwest and east coast. The original run was limited to 500.

Music

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The music contained in the skull showed a drastic departure from the band's earlier and more well known sound, often related to such album's as 2002's "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" and 2006's "At War with the Mystics" and is more closely related to the freeform and jazz-influenced "Embryonic". The EP consists of four songs, two of which are instrumentals. The use of lo-fi as well as experimental recording techniques were used in the recording process. Producer Dave Fridmann said of the process: "We'll put the drum mic by the bass amp, and the bass mic near the keyboard player and put the vocal mic next to the guitar amp." This EP would point to the even more abstract Flaming Lips with Prefuse 73 EP to be released the next month.

Reaction

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Most in the music press were taken aback by the music on this EP,although it did garner mostly positive reviews and gathered considerbale respect within the music community for it's experimental method of release. One reviewer said "...it is allring enough to make you want to fall in love with this band again."

Tracklisting

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1.Drug Chart

2.In Our Bodies,Out Of Our Heads

3.Walk With Me

4.Hillary's Time Machine Machine


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