FLAMING LIPS, THE – YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS Goth Rock maybe it would have worked

maybe it would have worked if it was mixed lower

After a decade of being impossible to find

along with extensive liner notes and Steve Rigot’s lyrics

Viva La Revolution

I'm Wide Awake It's Morning carved out it's place in the canon of great anti-war albums by being both present and prophetic

FLAMING LIPS, THE – YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS Goth Rock maybe it would have worked" So let's just come right out and say it: after the one two punch of Zaireeka and The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is a bold and inventive work, brimming with ideas and sublime moments of brilliance. But it's also unfocused and top heavy, a concept album about robots and karate that, somewhere along the line, strays into languorous, contemplative songs about mortality and death. Nor does Yoshimi always put the Lips' best foot