Name: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Brand: The Flaming Lips

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

A 530200

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Black

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Extended format

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2012-11-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

WEA /­ ADA

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

93624952176

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

The Flaming Lips

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Atlantic

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The Flaming Lips are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City, OK, USA. The band currently consists of Wayne Coyne (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steven Drozd (guitars, keyboards, bass, vocals), Derek Brown (keyboards, guitars, percussion), Matt Duckworth Kirksey (drums, percussion, keyboards) and Nicholas Ley (percussion, drums).

With a career spanning over three decades and numerous critically acclaimed albums under their belt, The Flaming Lips have become one of the most influential and innovative bands in the alternative music scene. Known for their experimental soundscapes and eccentric stage performances that often include elaborate costumes and props.

Their unique blend of psychedelic rock with elements of pop and electronic music has garnered them a dedicated fan base worldwide. From their early releases like "The Soft Bulletin" to more recent albums such as "Oczy Mlody," The Flaming Lips continue to push boundaries and defy expectations with their boundary-pushing music.

After the symphonic majesty of The Soft Bulletin, <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/the-flaming-lips">The Flaming Lips</a> return with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a sublime fusion of Bulletin's newfound emotional directness, the old-school playfulness of Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, and, more importantly, exciting new expressions of the group's sentimental, experimental sound.

While the album isn't as immediately impressive as the equally brilliant and unfocused Soft Bulletin, it's more consistent, using a palette of rounded, surprisingly emotive basslines; squelchy analog synths; and manicured acoustic guitars to craft songs like One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21, a sleekly melancholy tale of robots developing emotions, and In the Morning of the Magicians, an aptly named electronic art rock epic that sounds like a collaboration between the <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/the-moody-blues">Moody Blues</a> and Wendy Carlos. Funny, beautiful, and moving, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots finds <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/the-flaming-lips">The Flaming Lips</a> continuing to grow and challenge themselves in not-so-obvious ways.

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