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

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Bonus disc: No

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48141

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2002-07-16

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Supplier US

WEA /­ ADA

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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093624814122

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Artist

The Flaming Lips

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Atlantic

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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