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Artist: The Flaming Lips, Producer: The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker, Label: Warner Bros, Length: 47mins, Released: 2002
Review:
Transporting the listener to a world unlike our own, a world of fantastic mechanic monsters and mystical powers that transform the aural landscape around us, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is an album that invites us into a magic journey that is portrayed vividly in the music and songs that fill the atmosphere.
The Flaming Lips album follows the widely acclaimed and critically praised album The Soft Bulletin that was released three years ago, that took a less experimental feel to the music in place of catchy melodic tunes and more accessible sound, but as well, a shift to a more serious and thoughtful occupation in content and lyrics.
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots builds from the band’s previous album, but takes a step back into the more familiar arena for the band, the psychedelic, the album feels more like their earlier work and the sounds are much more vivid and lively for this.
The songs tell a series of stories that paint a dark and haunting picture, the lyrics concern themselves with deep melancholic ponderings about love, mortality and deception, as the album opens its first four tracks, following the journey of its title character Yoshimi and her battle. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots takes the listener further into this in stories that occupy varying territories of thought on these matters, leaving noticeably disparaging views on the subject of love, namely lost love and the missed opportunity at love.
The Flaming Lips takes you into a world that is poignantly sad and lonely, with some moments that illuminate the sparse landscape, if only momentarily. Rich electronic sounds that cascade all around and tantalise the senses, it is an aural experience like none other that evokes an incredible feeling within, and that beckons you to listen on.
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