Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

This album is a couple of years old now, but I’m in the mood to spread the gospel of beautiful psychedelic epics. I believe I used the term “masterpiece” in the last review, so I’ll hold back here, despite the strong, strong instinct. I also have to resist the temptation to start a religion surrounding this concept album. “One more robot learns to be something more than a machine, when it tries the way it does, makes it seem like it can love.” The robots come to life. Yoshimi the blackbelt works for the city and takes her vitamins so she can defeat them. Fight Test is a fragile exploration of a man being tested. He doesn’t want to fight, but “I’m a man, not a boy, and there are things you can’t avoid, you have to face them when you’re not prepared to face them.” Musically this release is glorious and action-packed, a fireworks show and an aural massage designed for headphones and the dark.

Author: listener | Category: Music Reviews, Psychedelic | Comments(0) June 2007