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Reliably odd but the deranged proggery grates: King’s Mouth by The Flaming Lips reviewed

10 August 2019

9:00 AM

10 August 2019

9:00 AM

Grade: B-

So a queen dies as her giant baby is being born. The baby grows very big indeed and soon everything in the universe is inside his necessarily large head. One day he sacrifices himself to save his subjects from a deluge of snow. The townspeople cut off his head and preserve it in steel so that it will last for ever.

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