With its full-length cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, The Flaming Lips applies its rediscovered taste for grungy psychedelic rock to material that needs no introduction. With help from Stardeath and White Dwarfs, an Oklahoma band fronted by Lips frontman Wayne Coyne’s nephew, the band revisits the classic album track by track. The outcome approximates what anyone who knows the Lips would expect — brash and noisy in places, delicate and wounded in others — and while it’s a bit of a novelty, it’s also a hell of a lot of fun.

As with the original record, the most alluring theme in this rendition is the melody from “Breathe.” In this case, though, it’s executed by Michael Ivins as a sloppy, funky bass lick. Stylistically, it fits perfectly with the heady funk of the Lips’ recent Embryonic, which swapped orchestration for adventures in dissonance, much to the delight of longtime fans. Other highlights include “Time,” in which cacophonous clocks are replaced by a catchy loop of sampled coughs, breaths and sniffles, a vocoder-heavy version of “Money,” and a serene, Yoshimi-style take on “Us and Them.”

Not all of the Dark Side magic came from members of the band and the Lips are careful to preserve crucial elements like Clare Torry’s unforgettable banshee wail on “The Great Gig in the Sky,” which is re-created note-for-note by Toronto’s Peaches, albeit with healthy doses of distortion and reverb. In the same vein, the anonymous musings that littered the original recording are growled with great panache by Henry Rollins, one of the most recognizable voices in modern rock.