The Flaming Lips - It Overtakes Me

It would be intriguing to learn just how much time Wayne Coyne has spent with Beck since they had an on-the-road 'bust up' a few years back. Despite being vocally unimpressed with Beck's failure to set up his own equipment on tour, It Overtakes Me assures us he is audibly smitten with how he uses it. Entering with a crunching Strangers-esque bassline and departing all countrified acoustic serenity, it's a brilliantly restless, sprawling effort coupling the patented jerkiness of the aforementioned funkster with some airier, more spiritual Yoshimi-like moments. Can they do no wrong? [Finbarr Bermingham]