Album: The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips (1999)
Genre: Alternative Rock | Style: Rock/Pop | Mood: Gentle
Record Label: Warner Bros. Records
Format: Album

Description: The Soft Bulletin is the ninth album released by The Flaming Lips on May 17, 1999 in the UK, with a US release following on June 22, 1999. It was released to wide critical acclaim and hailed by critics as a departure from their previous guitar-heavy alternative rock sound, into a more layered and intricately arranged work.

Artist Background: The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Norman, Oklahoma in 1983. Instrumentally, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles-such as "What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical by Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accel... Part of the Oklahoma, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Psychedelic Rock movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Related Artists: Mercury Rev, Ween, Beck, Modest Mouse

Music Scene: Part of the Oklahoma, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Psychedelic Rock movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Tags: Alternative Rock, Rock/Pop, Gentle, 1990s, Album, Warner Bros. Records

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The Soft Bulletin is the ninth album released by The Flaming Lips on May 17, 1999 in the UK, with a US release following on June 22, 1999. It was released to wide critical acclaim and hailed by critics as a departure from their previous guitar-heavy alternative rock sound, into a more layered and intricately arranged work.

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