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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
by Flaming Lips
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Overall Rating:
3.4041
Avg. Critic Score:
3.2838
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Rank 4 Reviews
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Tiny Mix Tapes.comThe clearest illustration of the qualities of the new Flaming Lips LP, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots , can be found on the album’s cover. Depicted in broad strokes is, well, a pink robot, and, ah, a girl in a little dress—Yoshimi to ...more
SplendidA perfect synthesis of modern studio manipulation and old-time pop craftsmanship, shattering all notions of what pop music can, or for that matter, should be. ...more
Dot MusicIncredibly, 'Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots' is a record that can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with 'The Soft Bulletin', refining that album's themes and defiantly charging into unchartered musical territories. Another masterpiece. ...more
Yahoo! MusicIn a recent interview, Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne asserted his belief that every Christmas movie should have a little It's A Wonderful Life in it. It's an illuminating sentiment that sheds light on the music of one of America's most consistently ...more
ShakingThrough.netGive the Flaming Lips credit for producing the year's great musical paradox: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is an optimistically fatalistic work. Head Lip Wayne Coyne, he of the Parking Lot Experiment and four-disc Zaireeka collection, offers up ...more
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The Onion (A.V. Club)Endlessly 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. ...more
Ink Blot MagazineThe measured use of electronics recalls nothing so much as OK Computer, and in some ways Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots sounds like that album might have if Thom Yorke believed in God. ...more
CDNowAfter fifteen years of continually blossoming brilliance, the Flaming Lips can count themselves among the most essential American bands in rock history. ...more
New Musical Express'Yoshimi...' sets yet another benchmark. ...more
nme.comFlaming Lips albums have always come like musical missives from the 'Twilight Zone', uniting Wayne Coyne's starry-eyed magical realist story-telling with their quest to bend and redefine the very nature of the pop sound. They've never cared ...more
All Music GuideFunny, beautiful, and moving, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots finds the Flaming Lips continuing to grow and challenge themselves in not-so-obvious ways after delivering their obvious masterpiece. ...more
All Music GuideAfter the symphonic majesty ofThe Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips return withYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a sublime fusion ofBulletin's newfound emotional directness, the old-school playfulness ofTransmissions From the Satellite Heart, and, ...more
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