With a Little Help from my Fwends is a fitting name for the Flaming Lips’ track-by-track cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Featuring “fwends” of the Lips including Miley Cyrus, My Morning Jacket, Phantogram, Tegan and Sara, Grace Potter, Moby, Fever the Ghost, Ben Goldwasser of MGMT, and several more, the album embraces the preexisting weirdness of Sgt. Pepper and, in typical Lips fashion, makes it even weirder.

Layers of synth, warped vocals, and fuzzy, distorted guitar make some tracks off of Fwends sound like drug-induced nightmare versions of the Beatles originals. “When I’m Sixty-Four” featuring Def Rain and Pitchwafuzz sounds hauntingly melancholy in comparison to the lilting clarinet of the original Beatles version. In “Fixing a Hole,” the distant, echoing vocals sound like Wayne Coyne’s mind has wandered a little too far as he croons, “I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering.”

If Sgt. Pepper is the giant candy room from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Fwends is the wild, creepy boat ride down the chocolate river into the depths of the factory: it’s a twisted sonic journey that you need to take in all at one time. Aside from “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” featuring vocals by none other than Miley Cyrus, few of the tracks seem strong enough to hold up on their own.

While both Beatles and Lips fans would enjoy Fwends, the album is not worth listening to over and over. But despite the almost uncomfortable strangeness, the album supports a good cause: part of the proceeds from Fwends will benefit the Bella Foundation, which supports low-income pet owners of Oklahoma City.