Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Rock · 2002 · 9 tracks

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

A technicolor collision of acoustic folk and digital glitch. Existential questions about life and death wrapped in sci-fi metaphors and shimmering synth-pop.

July 15, 2002 · Warner Records

A shimmering, technicolor meditation on mortality that balances childlike wonder with deep existential melancholy.

Tracklist · 9 Tracks

02

One More Robot / Sympathy 3000–21

4:59

03

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1

4:46

04

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 2

2:58

05

In the Morning of the Magicians

6:19

06

Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell

4:34

07

Are You a Hypnotist??

4:45

08

It’s Summertime

4:20

10

All We Have Is Now

3:53

11

Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)

3:09

Moments Worth Listening For

The transition from the frantic screaming and heavy drums of Part 2 into the serene, sweeping synth pads of Magicians.

The way the acoustic guitar strumming anchors the glitchy, bubbling electronic beats in the title track.

The heartbreakingly simple piano melody that carries the weight of mortality in the final moments of All We Have Is Now.

Reviews

AllMusic

Where This Album Departs

How does Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots sound next to the rest of The Flaming Lips's catalogue?

Sunrise+4.0σ

Sunrise saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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