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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
[Warner]
Three years after the superb The Soft Bulletin, here comes Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Flaming Lips' ninth album (except for the strange Zaireeka, consisting of four CDs to be played simultaneously!). Produced by Dave Friedman (also producer of their Mercury Rev fellows), and led by singer Wayne Coyne, America's Flaming Lips have produced since 1983 a unique psychedelic music, at once melancholic and warm, relating all sorts of exploits and extraordinary stories. Partly inspired by the death of a Japanese fan, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots talks about love, life, death and, as the title suggests, the mood swings of Yoshimi (performed by Yoshimi P-we, singer of Japanese experimental band The Boredoms), the album's main character, confronted to a human-exterminating robot in some sort of gladiators dual. Subtle, soft and (of course) psychedelic, the album's eleven tracks unfold quite naturally, richly orchestrated and at times enhanced by electronic arrangements. An album that shall delight old fans and provide them with the same emotions as The Soft Bulletin. For the others, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is a perfect opportunity to discover a quite unique band and to plunge into its multicolour and unsettling universe.
Renaud Martin |
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