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The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics

I didn't know this record was being made, so not only was I surprised when I saw it in the store I didn't even get to savour anticipating its release. I guess it was the appearance of no less than two DVDs (including the essential Fearless Freaks documentary) and that whole Squarebob Spongepants soundtrack-thing that distracted me from the fact that it had been four long years since The Flaming Lips had released Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

It's because you're still kind of reeling from the robust "yeah yeah yeahs" of "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" and the weird Prince-like vocals and Pure Guava guitars of the second song, "Free Radicals," that you find yourself feeling a little dubious about just how this record is going to turn out. These two songs, however, not only redeem themselves with a little time, they lead to more familiar territory and to – what I think is – the high point of At War with the Mystics, the three gorgeous ballads, "The Sound of Failure," "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion" and "Vein of Stars."

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A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording... By Amateurs...

or The Accidental Career... The Flaming Lips 1984-1990

The rather elaborate title refers to how The Flaming Lips vocalist, Wayne Coyne, explains his band's career — or that they managed to have a career at all.

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The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

I bought a ticket to the Big Day Out specifically out of fear of The Flaming Lips not doing a sideshow of their own — knowing, incidentally, that there's a 99% chance that they will.

Who would have known that, with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips could have matched the poignancy and utter beauty of The Soft Bulletin?

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The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

The cover of Ween's White Pepper is predominately white, which, for the longest time, gave me the unshakable feeling that the songs contained therein where themselves predominately white.

For the longest time, that album sounded bland, and it wasn't until, after a few weeks of listening, I was able to discard those misconceptions and allow the nuances in the songs to paint their own palette and speak for themselves. I mention this only because the cover art of The Soft Bulletin is predominately blue and yellow and I can't shake the feeling that the music has only those two dimensions.

As such this review is a few weeks too early.

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