Clap your hands say yeah - Some loud thunder

It's very rare that i have to turn off a song because the sound is so distorted and grating that my ears start to hurt. I'm used to distortion and grating. The fact that i have sat through many mogwai concerts is testement to this. The first song of this album though just does my head in. I dont know what they were thinking. I guarantee that no person of sound mind could have sat down and listened to that track and said. "yes, that's good, lets put it on the album. track 1, title track". Then again producer Dave Fridmann, responsible for many Flaming Lips releases, isn't of sound mind. And there are many 'Lips-esque moments on this record with frenzied barrages of sound invading every corner of tracks such as "Arm and Hammer". At some points it's like listening to David Byrne on acid, on acid. It's hard to like a lot of this album, probably because of the fact that it is so busy. Standouts "yankee go home" and "Satan said dance" are good but not good enough to carry this over the line.