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 | Title : Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Author : The Flaming Lips
Release Date : 20020716
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $13.98
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Editorial Reviews :
As these dimpled moptops from Oklahoma grow pepper-bearded and transform into wizened elder statesmen of sonic adventuring, the heartfelt candy of their loving bubblegum stretches ever longer into echoing soundscapes. If Radiohead are halfway to becoming U2, the Flaming Lips are nine-tenths of the way to pop nirvana. Hardly a song on Yoshimi isn't resonated, echoed, and reverberated--floating the listener higher until they have the ultimate bird's eye view of what makes a great band tick. As with any album by the band, it's hard not to imagine parades and a sky filled with helium balloons while you listen to any of it--in this case, the party is enhanced brilliantly by digital filters and silver shimmering asides. The most immediate songs, like 'One More Robot (3000-21),' are digital (almost trip-hop) dance numbers that lift the band out of the cornfields and into the loopy land of Björk. Little surprise, then, that the band are already following up this majestic splash of gummy bear brilliance by recording a CD with TV kids-show host Steve from Blue's Clues. It's like Woodstock meets Snoopy!
Buyer Reviews :
Well, besides I-35, I-40, and I-44?
This is one dense album, with Brothers Karamazov-ian musical phrasing that doesn't get followed through, a story that seems to be written to the music rather than the other way around, and a lot of aural weirdness. And it all works surprisingly well.
There have been a lot of long-time fans who have been complaining that the Lips have abandoned their usual guitar-based sound, but I think this is more an evolution than a change. Tell me how you could make this album with anything BUT this strange cross of trip-hop and prog rock. And again, it all works. The two obvious singles ('Fight Test' and 'Do You Realize???') are stunning pieces of pop music, but other tracks show this strange merger of different musical forms.
If you ever drive through Oklahoma City (or Tulsa for that matter) and play with the radio tuner, you can get three or four stations layered on top of each other fighting for space and your attention, pop country fighting with 70s rock, hip hop, and the faux alternative station. This is what songs like Yoshimi Pt. 2 and Ego Tripping sound like.
Like Kid A, it takes about 10-20 listens to figure out what's going on. Like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the pop hooks demand you listen to it 10-20 times. One of the top three albums of the year by far, and maybe a hopeful sign that pop music may still rise from the detritus of Britany and the boy bands.
(by Dylan E Wilbanks)
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