A few weeks back I picked up the Flaming Lip's latest album, "At War With the Mystics." The album is very brilliant, much up to this band's caliber. First of all, the Flaming Lips are known for being weird and out there, especially music wise. Naturally, once you break through that first layer of "weirdness" you'll find deeper meanings to most of their songs, especially songs such as "Do You Realize" from "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" and "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" from their latest release.
I personally enjoyed this album for a few reasons: the vocals, the fantastic effect the music has on you, plus some of the songs are pretty catchy. The lyrics are always good, if even a little weird. The art is pretty cool, nothing extraordinary, but pretty cool. They have an instrumental song on here called "The Wizard Turns On (His Silver Flashlight and Puts On His Werewolf Moccasins)" which is actually pretty fun to listen to, even if there aren't any lyrics. I especially get the feeling you get listen to the songs. You feel almost like you are floating in space... until you open you eyes again.
Alright, I'm gonna end this post with a video.
Video for "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song."
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