Honestly, is there a better, more unique band out there?

Fucking amazing.

I dig The Flaming Lips

they are releasing a new album this year, I'm looking forward to it

*shimmy*

Are there details on this ?? I've heard a title and a vague release date, but that's it..

Yes, but...

...probably not, and...

...I agree with this.

http://www.hipinion.com/leaks_list.php

The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics






but i cant find it
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album blackout
album blackout
album blackout

i can do it.

They are such a fun band


I wanna go to their live show on mushrooms

what?

'album blackout' is the act of not llistening to an album before it's release date. the first day i'll hear this album is the day it goes to stores.

hmmmmm
but did you knew that it will be called "At War With The Mystics"?

The Flaming Lips - Back soon! Hurrah!

NATURAL 'MYSTICS'!



THE FLAMING LIPS have almost finished work on their new album, and have told fans to expect a more "organic" sound.

The album, recorded at producer Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Studios, will be the group’s first since 2002’s ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’.

Going by the working title of ‘At War With The Mystics’, the album has been scheduled for release mid-2005.

"We've moved away from robot sounds to sounds that are made by robots that come off organic," frontman Wayne Coyne explained to Blender magazine.

"It's getting into a space-age jazz element, a sort of progressive Dixieland, hopefully not too far out of the realm of what's listenable." He said he hopes the new record will keep the Lips "element of psychiatric injury".

Tracks expected to appear on the album are 'Space Bible' and 'Mr Ambulance Driver'.

"It's about a guy and a gal," said Coyne of 'Mr Ambulance Driver', "And the gal is dying after a car accident and it's the moment they share as the ambulance approaches."

The veteran group, who will appear in the US at All Tomorrow’s Parties next month, have also written new track 'Spongebob & Patrick Confront The Psychic Wall of Energy' for forthcoming film 'Spongebob Squarepants Movie'.

Ryan Schreiber reports:
There's been little time this year for anything but the studio for psych-pop magnates The Flaming Lips: When last we checked in with them in early July, the trio had just wrapped a second recording session for the highly anticipated follow-up to 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, having found their schedules totally blank in the wake of Lollapalooza's cancellation. Indeed, the album sessions, originally planned for September, were bumped forward-- and the band has been at work ever since.

So how's it coming along, then? Swimmingly, it seems. According to a report in this month's Blender, much of the record has already been laid down at Dave Fridmann's Tarbox studios, just across the Canadian border in isolated Cassadaga, NY. It also has a working title-- At War with the Mystics-- and is tentatively slated for a mid-2005 release. And the direction? Well, anyone displeased with the overtly electronic elements present on Yoshimi should be thrilled: Charismatic Lips frontman Wayne Coyne says the songs they've worked on so far have "a more organic feel."

"We've moved away from robot sounds to sounds that are made by robots that come off organic," said Coyne to the Maxim music offshoot. "It's getting into a space-age jazz element." Of course, he also called it "a sort of progressive Dixieland" record that is "hopefully not too far out of the realm of what's listenable"-- before thankfully assuring reporters that this new sound would not come at the expense of their usual "element of psychiatric injury." Oh. Good.

Two of the new songs confirmed as contenders for inclusion on the finished product include "Space Bible" and "Mr. Ambulance Driver". Of the latter, Coyne reveals, "It's about a guy and a gal, and the gal is dying after a car accident and it's the moment they share as the ambulance approaches." While the band is said to have made substantial progress on the album, they're reportedly not quite finished yet: They're expected to return to Fridmann's place soon to wrap up production. In the meantime, fans going out of their minds for new Lips material can check out their collaboration with Sparklehorse on Gammon Records' excellent new Daniel Johnston compilation/tribute, Discovered, Covered.

In the live arena, The Flaming Lips just brought the house down with an appearance at the Austin City Limits music festival on Thursday, but haven't got anything else scheduled between now and winter. Come November 6th (and/or 7th), however, they'll take the stage at the Modest Mouse-curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Long Beach, California, alongside such indie rock luminaries as Lou Reed, The Shins, The Walkmen, Sufjan Stevens, Built to Spill, and of course, Modest Mouse themselves.




http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/04-09/27.shtml

Bump

Bumpy McBumpster

I saw them on mushrooms at Bonnaroo a few years back, it was fantastic. This gal in front of me had a huge inflatable monkey and we were all dancing with it, it was goddam rediculous. I was bugging out during Do You Realize as Wayne sang along with his Nun handpuppet pressed against his face, oh good times.

"At War With the Mystics"


Awesome

I want more robots.

The Soft Bulletin is a tremendous album from start to finish, definately one of my favorites to play on a nice long car ride. Waitin' for a Superman is a gem!