At War With the Mystics
Indie legends' first new album in four years-- widely tipped to be the group's return to a more guitar-centric sound-- is stylistically diverse and colored by distant, queasy prodcution.
It wasn't as hard to be The Flaming Lips in 1999, when the band was a grunge-era one-hit wonder with a following among the psychotropic noise-pop set. Back then, The Flaming Lips could sneak out a masterpiece like The Soft Bulletin—a lush, inspiring album about mortality—and quietly watch it spread across the rock…
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Since 1999's The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips have issued an album once every three or four years -- roughly once per presidential term, making At War with the Mystics the second album they've made during George W. Bush's presidency.
<p>; No other mainstream rock group can create life-changing music from such bizarre components, claims <strong>Campbell Stevenson </strong>.</p>
Judging from their 12th full-length album, Oklahoma oddballs the Flaming Lips are through being quiet.