At its outset, the songs are psychedelic and trippy, featuring no vocals on the opening title track but gaining vocals and becoming more discernible as they go on. Where Oczy Mlody sets itself apart as a strong, solid album in its own right is the arrangement of its tracks. As a base album, it should be easy for Flaming Lips fans to get into it, although not entirely accessible for newcomers. At its core, the music isn’t exactly that different from the music of the Flaming Lips’ past, with 2013’s The Terror often coming to mind and even with elements of 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots appearing as well.
To put it simply, the music of Oczy Mlody sticks to its psychedelic guns as much as possible, while mixing it with other genres in a way that allows songs to range from experimental and singularly diverse to almost cinematic. It’s a large collection of information to swallow, but in music form it’s one that lives up to all the hype frontman Wayne Coyne has thrown on it and paints a brilliant psychedelic picture that drones with style. The description for Flaming Lips’ latest experimental album Oczy Mlody is a mouthful in and of itself: A record in the style of both rock group Pink Floyd’s found Syd Barrett and modern rapper A$AP Rocky, combining their psychedelic styles into one obviously Flaming Lips sounding arrangement, on top of a concept about a party drug sharing the album’s title and a fairy tale future that’s living with it.