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The Flaming Lips: King’s Mouth

And I’d keep your kids away from the children’s book that accompanies the album

issue 10 August 2019

Grade: B-

So a queen dies as her giant baby is being born. The baby grows very big indeed and soon everything in the universe is inside his necessarily large head. One day he sacrifices himself to save his subjects from a deluge of snow.

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