Youll also find a trailer for the Lips upcoming film Christmas on Mars. The DVD-A has a wealth of features: -Yoshimi B-Sides Up Above the Daily Hum (Arguably the best song theyve ever recorded) If I go MadFuneral in my head the title track sung in Japanese, alternate versions of the title track, and a remix of Do you realize.Īlso included are videos for Fight Test, Yoshimi Battles the pink robots, Do you realize (both versions), the making of the Yoshimi video, the making of the Pellington version of Do You Realize a hilarious but short feature on the making of the DVD-A where Wayne explains the Flaming Lips as Stevie Wonder meets Led Zeppelin with pro-tools.
In case you missed it the first time, the DVD-A comes with the stereo redbook cd as a bonus disc. The DVD-A is impressive, it makes me wish I had a 5.1 surround setup in my apartment. I havent auditioned the new EP, Ive spent most of my afternoon with the Concert for George DVD the new Beatles cd. Their new Ep Ego Tripping at the gates of hell and a DVD-A of their latest masterpiece Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. The song is quite strange and the epic sadness feels in many ways closer in spirit to The Soft Bulletin than Yoshimi, despite a somewhat different sound. On Yoshimi, Coyne touches nerves that run deeper than the ears, dispensing thoughtful notions about life and death on tracks like All We Have Is Now and the gorgeous, deceptively simple single Do You Realize Although the albums battle between a woman named Yoshimi and an army of evil-natured robots plays out in a meandering two-part epic, the tracks somehow fit naturally amid the symphonic flourishes and the several tender ballads about appreciating life and savoring its beauty.Įndlessly listenable and almost invariably mesmerizing, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots piles on layers of production prowess without drowning out the beat of its human, humane heart.Īdvertisement Share This Story Get our newsletter Subscribe More from The A.V. Its reasonable to expect Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots to take a step back from its predecessors labor-intensive grandeur, but bandleader Wayne Coyne finds a way to top himself anyway: by making songs that resonate on an even more directly personal level.įor the last few years, The Flaming Lips music has been an audiophiles dream, but it could also be somewhat emotionally inert, taking off on charmingly oddball flights of fancy that live up to titles like The Big Ol Bug Is The New Baby Now.
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