Sexual urges are sublimated throughout the album, evoking the late-night making out that it was built to soundtrack on "Speed of Sound", Chris Bell makes a lyric about not getting laid sound like the ballad of the unknown soldier, while Nick Drake's "River Man" is a little too obviously the song where you should lean over and make your move. Björk's "Unravel" ushers us in, and then gently segues to the champagne music of Miles Davis playing Gershwin's "My Ship". The rest of the album is damn near sublime. (You can hear the single at the start of their promotional Radio Mix, found online here.) It's cartoonishly effective and less terse and gritty than the Stripes' original, but this isn't the side of the band you'd expect to hear on this mix it's a nice hook for collectors, but not essential by itself. The other curveball is the Flaming Lips' cover of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army", a piece of sonic hostility with sirens, fuzzed-out riffs, and Coyne emoting through a megaphone. David Shirgley's "The Jist", a disturbing spoken word piece that feels like pure stoner talk, closes the album and overrides what could have been a blissful send-off courtesy of Brian Eno's "Another Green World". Oddly, the songs that least belong are the exclusive recordings. Most of the tunes sound like they were made out of yawns, smoke, and sighs, and aside from a couple of bumps, it's an indisputable post-party mix. The album does more than showcase the band's taste in classic and contemporary pop it sets a precise and peculiar mood, a kind of late-night sensation that's weightless but not silly, and askew but not deranged. This new mix disc, assembled for Azuli's LateNightTales series, is a perfect example of Lips-branded atmosphere.
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