Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Do you realize it’s summertime? So celebrate the sunshine with the optimisic and philosophical spirit of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips’ long-awaited follow-up to 1999’s The Soft Bulletin, which topped an avalanche of year-end “best of” lists and helped rank the psychedelic-noise-popsters among the most influential bands in the world (#15 according to NME). “It’s storytelling acid rock,” say The Flaming Lips, “and will render its listeners powerless to study or analyze it and enable them to sit back and–hopefully for a couple of minutes at a time–just simply be…entertained.”