Sunday, September 6, 2009

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)

[Experimental/Indie pop/rock]

For Moe.

I usually hate labeling things as "experimental" cause I feel it's a term that gets thrown around WAY too much now a days. Especially by bands who believe that having a few weird time signatures, and/or delay pedals makes them so.

To experiment, in the truest sense of the word, is to take things out of the box. And try to create something new, from what already is.

This is what The Flaming Lips achieved with their magnificent 2002 release, Yoshimi battles the pink robots.

I believe pitchfork media said it best:
"The Flaming Lips’ brilliant follow-up to 1999’s The Soft Bulletin, this album was every bit its equal and solidified Wayne Coyne and The Lips as perhaps the most inventive, fascinating purveyors of skewered pop perfection in the musical world. "

After such a description... can you really NOT get this?
Didn't think so.

Equal parts pop, quirk, noise, and happiness.

Her name is Yoshimi.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LR3H7WE0


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