The Flaming Lips are not new to challenging the listen with bizarre and often abstract approaches to music (see everything prior to The Soft Bulletin), but they've always been optimistic in a drug-induced sort of way. This is not the case with The Terror. It is a harrowing listening experience, but captures the emotion of despair as much as happiness and wonder have been captured on past albums.

4.0/5 - Very good album, even if a difficult experience. Combines their more recent accessible offerings with past experimentation, in the context of new emotional states - the sounds of someone coping with sadness.