Hmm. Sorta Nick Cave meets Spinal Tap. It does remind me of something very specific but I can't put my finger on it at the moment. I'm curious to hear the rest of the album - wonder if it all sounds like this? It is a bit of a new direction for them.

Yes, the whole album is like this -- only noisier and more esoteric. Actually, "Hex" is probably the most accessible song.

The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi are two of the greatest albums ever recorded. I also love Clouds Taste Metallic and Mystics.

Embryonic is, shall we say, their most *experimental* album since Zaireeka, which means that it will either be successful on those terms, or a dismal failure -- pegged as nothing more than self-indulgent noodling.

She submits and she donates
She gets out of her head
And she talks to the ceiling
You can hear what she said

She said
That's the difference between us
That's the difference between us
That's the difference between us
You see, thats the difference between us

She said I like your theory
But it won't pass no tests
Watch the watcher
Get shot in the chest

That's the difference between us
That's the difference between us
That's the difference between us
You see, thats the difference between us

She said (can't understand) of some system
That controls and effects
I believe in nothing
And your convinced of the hex
I believe in nothing
And your convinced of the hex

That's the difference between us
That's the difference between us
That's the difference between us
You see, thats the difference between us

They sound like Joy Division. I like!

I love this song and this particular performance on Colbert.

It's kind of a psychedelic and dark miltaristic march off to Wonderland.

I DVR'd it last week and watched four times since. I thought I'd delete but I just can't bring myself to do it.

There's an addictive chemical in that song.

I know it.

One more thing.

If Jimi's "Are you Experienced," was getting busy in a threesome between Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows"-- "The Hex" would be the sexy Hermaphrodite lovechild.

I dunno. I think like the rest of the Flips stuff it has its own kind of internal logic and meaning. I only heard the one song, Convinced of the Hex on the Colbert Report, but I've been a fan since I first heard She Don't Use Jelly way back in the day and nothing the band has done since then (and retroactively before then either) has been a disappointment, and more importantly nothing it has done is bland, boring or predictable. The Flips worst stuff is consistently better than other bands' best.

ZIRGAR: "The Flips worst stuff is consistently better than other bands' best."

Agreed. Regardless of whether this album sticks to the wall or not, they're still one of my top five or six favorites. Flips, Foo Fighters, Death Cab, Rush, Pornographers, U2.