With a Little Help From My Fwends

The Flaming Lips

With a Little Help From My Fwends

The psych rockers rework Sgt. Pepper's with help from Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Miley Cyrus and more, with proceeds going to an Oklahoma animal charity

ADM rating[?]

5.6

Label
Bella Union
UK Release date
03/11/2014
US Release date
27/10/2014
  1. 8.0 |   The 405

    An homage that has been scribbled over with synth and smashed with guitar solos, but you can still see the original underneath
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  2. 7.0 |   All Music

    The band have a great respect for the Fab Four's legacy and influence, making the album a wonderful distraction that provides fans with a window into the influences of one of rock's most enduring and joyously weird bands
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  3. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    With this album, they show it’s okay to not take things like popular music and culture so damn seriously and just have fun with it or at it
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  4. 7.0 |   NME

    A delightful tribute to The Beatles and a record that has made so many turn on, tune in and drop out
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  5. 7.0 |   The Music

    Altogether a landmark of psychedelic rock brought under the influence of different hallucinogens
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  6. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    An intriguing glimpse of whatever strange journey they have planned next
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  7. 6.5 |   Beardfood

    The Lips themselves don't stand out on this, but their vision for a different Lonely Hearts Club Band is enticing
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  8. 6.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A worthy cover of a nigh-on perfect album, capturing the joie de vivre of the original and dousing it in some serious lunacy for good measure
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  9. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    There’s sometimes a comedy vocal or burst of electronic noise but the songs are never ruined
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  10. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    At times, the rampant sonic buffoonery makes the original sound positively humdrum
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  11. 5.5 |   Pitchfork

    Ironically, the seemingly most outrageous aspect of this entire endeavour—i.e., the mere presence of Miley Cyrus—proves to be its grounding force
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  12. 5.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    This project would have been better served as one incredible live experience
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  13. 4.0 |   Crack

    “What have we done?”
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  14. 4.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Ugly, druggy, mismatched exercises in shoving as many unnecessary synths, obnoxious vocal effects, and overbearing (and overcompressed) modern production techniques into the mix as possible
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  15. 4.0 |   Mojo

    It's largely horrible, but sometimes impressively so. Print edition only

  16. 4.0 |   Q

    Superfluous re-interpretations of Sgt. Pepper. Print edition only

  17. 4.0 |   Rolling Stone

    An uneven mishmash of electro experimentalism and druggy freakouts
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  18. 4.0 |   The Guardian

    The vaunted weirdness is undermined by ho-hum predictability
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