THE FLAMING LIPS

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots WARNER/RHINO

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Lauded 10th album from Oklahoma City’s finest gets stunning Blu-ray edition. ‘Cause it’s hard to say what’s real/When you know the way you feel,’ emotes the Flaming Lips’ leader Wayne Coyne on One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 from Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. Once seen as the well-executed follow up to the psychedelic oddballs’ true d’oeuvre, 1999’s The Soft Bulletin, the Lips’ 10th now eclipses its predecessor as the group’s go-to masterpiece. Released in 2002, this quirky concept album about pink robots and karate now looks visionary, especially in relation to the unknowns that come with AI and the way the internet dominates people’s lives. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots presents several battlegrounds: the tangible versus the surreal, the physical and the metaphysical. The guitars are cut up and diced and…

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