With A Little Help From My Fwends

December, 2014

• Warning: Lots of sanctimonious Beatles fans will despise With a Lit­tle Help From My Fwends, the Flam­ing Lips' remake of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. With an odd lineup of helpers ranging from Maynard James Keenan to Miley Cyrus, the long-standing Oklahoma cult band wants to unfa-miliarize you with the Beatles, taking their silly psyche­delic treks to a digi­tal extreme. Fwends is woozy, disjointed, dense, sometimes even off-putting. Forget marma­lade skies; this is the brown acid o...