Look... The Sun Is Rising

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"Look... The Sun Is Rising"
Single by The Flaming Lips
from the album The Terror
ReleasedMarch 3, 2013
Recorded2012
Studio Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York, and Pink Floor Studios in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Genre Experimental rock
Length3:42
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) The Flaming Lips
Producer(s)
The Flaming Lips singles chronology
"Sun Blows Up Today"
(2013)
"Look... The Sun Is Rising"
(2013)
"Space Oddity"
(2016)

"Look... The Sun Is Rising" is the first track from the Flaming Lips thirteenth studio album, The Terror . It was released on March 3, 2013, as the first and only single from the album.

Reception

The song received mostly positive reviews, with Spin Magazine saying "it's decidedly darker in tone. Still, 'Look… the Sun is Rising' is filled with musical promise: adopting a deeply psychedelic tact, the Lips employ clanging drums, angular guitars, whirring keys, and moody atmospherics to create an immersive and enigmatic sound. Coyne buries himself in the midst of it, singing quietly of the strange magic that the right horizon can impart." [1]

Stereogum stated that it is "an eerie, clanking thing that would've fit perfectly well into Embryonic ". [2]

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References

  1. "Hear the Flaming Lips' Excellent Post-Punk Explosion 'Look… the Sun Is Rising'" . Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  2. "The Flaming Lips – "Look… The Sun Is Rising"" . Retrieved 15 December 2024.