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FLAMING LIPS - At War With The Mystics
| Times Online | | They are well into middle age, but the Flaming Lips remain in touch with their inner tormented teenager. This might be the finest yet from Messrs Coyne, Ivins and Drozd. The quality rarely lets up from the opener The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song, built around a sample of affirmatives and a jaunty bass line, to the faux Philly soul of The Sound of Failure and the classic rock call to arms of The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)....full text |
| | Playlouder | | Flaming Lips have befuddled, bamboozled and bemused the record buying public for over 20 years now, and things thankfully are unlikely to change with the arrival of 'At War With the Mystics'. Yet few bands split opinion like Flaming Lips....full text |
| | ShakingThrough | | "We got the power now, motherfuckers, that's where it belongs." This arresting line, from “The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)”, tidily encapsulates the irritated tone permeating At War With the Mystics, The Flaming Lips’ 12th full-length release. The Lips have never been regarded as the most topical of bands, yet Mystics atypically finds them sounding off on the current state of worldly events (from fanatical suicide bombers to the policy choices of the Bush administration)....full text |
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