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On a Do You Realize?/All We Have Is Now tip is the astral acoustica of Smoking Pot Makes Me Not Want to Kill Myself. I Can't Get Away is all mad fizzy synths and manic cartoon frenzy belying a serious, poignant message. Cosmic country is closer but Gram Parsons this ain't вЂ“ think more Band of Horses or My Morning Jacket if they were on 90s Warp. You could call it psychedelic soul but that makes you think of the Temptations' circa Cloud Nine and that's not quite right.

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There's a reason for the similarities between TFL and SAWD, apart from the blood tie вЂ“ the four members have apparently been members of the Lips' road crew for several years, have supported them at various gigs and festivals, and appear to have learned some tricks about how to sound immense AND intimate, electronic yet emotional.

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And when we say they sound like the Lips, we mean the latterday Lips, the Lips of the Soft Bulletin/Yoshimi/Mystics trilogy, the Lips who decided in their infinite wisdom that it might be an interesting idea to invent a new sort of multi-dimensional music that comprises squelchy keyboard noises with heartstopping melodies, gently strummed acoustic guitars with squealing electric ones, and have a gentleman singing over the top in a cracked Neil Young falsetto that makes him sound like the last man alive wailing across a lonely universe.

Well, they sound like the Lips, the best American band of the last 30 years (since Television, yes). But the Flaming Lips are a band we've been collecting everything вЂ“ and we do mean EVERYTHING вЂ“ by since their 1995 album Clouds Taste Metallic, and they haven't had an album proper out since 2006's At War With the Mystics (give or take last year's Christmas On Mars soundtrack), so our feeling is: a band whose singer is related to Wayne Coyne?! We don't care how good or bad they are вЂ“ come to papa! With most musicians, when you hear they're related to rock stars, your heart sinks because you assume they'll be offering a watered-down version of their famous forebear вЂ“ more of the same, only less so.

The background: Stardeath and White Dwarfs come from Oklahoma and are fronted by Dennis Coyne, the nephew of the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne.

The lineup: Dennis Coyne (vocals, guitar), Casey Joseph (bass), Matt Duckworth (keyboards), James Young (drums).