In 1989 The Flaming Lips were joined by psychedelic noise guitarist Dingus (Jonathan Donahue), enabling them to create an album (In A Priest Driven Ambulance) and EP (Unconsciously Screamin) of outstanding new material. Silver Sunshine is a 10-track compilation which collects the best of those recordings, which range from wild guitar-storms to quieter, acoustic-driven reveries, all coloured by a skewed and often disquieting world-view. Dingus would leave to concentrate on working with Mercury Rev soon after The Flaming Lips signed with a major label; The Flaming Lips then slowly devolved into a novelty act, but can at least look back at Silver Sunshine to recall a brief moment when they stood in the vanguard of neo-psychedelic noise-rock invention.