Zaireeka
by The Flaming Lips

Heavy, immersive, inventive and emotional, Zaireeka doesn't seem to get the love it deserves, presumably because people either view it as a gimmick or just can't find a way to play it (CDs/Vinyls are expensive and require 4 devices, not available on Spotify, YouTube laden with ads, etc). I'd say it's up there with Transmissions and Clouds in terms of quality, but still is totally its own thing. Really does feel like an experience.

From teague 08/17/2021 23:05 | #272605

I've yet to experience this album properly, but the songs are great and the idea behind the album is really cool.

I work for a school and run a club that listens to full records once a week. This is the only album I have done every year, the very last album of the year. So much fun with high schoolers.

From flamingyesdept 05/28/2016 19:15 | #167092

Really inventive and brilliant album which, like all of the Lips' work, deserves far, far more praise than it gets

If you don't want that many complications to listen to an album, there's a version around that condenses all four CDs into one, so the album can be listened to normally without needing more than one player.

Having listened to that, it may lose some of the wow factor, but the album still sounds great, with its characteristic Flaming Lips sound.

Best tracks: Your Invisible Now, A Machine in India

From SingingPeasant96 03/11/2013 07:37 | #67829

@junodog4/I did it, and bloody cool, you just don't need to have 4 portable mp3 player. I just did it using 4 other music player software on Computer, anyway nice album.

From junodog4 06/19/2012 02:33 | #44706

What a cool concept. Each album works on it own, and there are 14 different combinations of discs to listen together before you try all four. What an ambitious project. Playing all 4 together actually works. Try it. Get 3 other music nerds, grab some portable players, sit in a room and time out the play buttons. It's worth it for the social experiment, and it sounds pretty cool too. This should get greater acclaim than it does on it's status as an artistic project and musical event.