8.6
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#664
All Time
10
Tracks
“I think it's safe to say that the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne is a genius, equal parts Thomas Edison and P.T. Barnum. Like Edison, Coyne is a relentless tinkerer, a visionary experimenteur with a sci-fi fetish and a soft spot for odd technologies. And like Barnum, Coyne is a consummate showman-- the hand puppets, the boombox orchestras, the oddball short films, the radio-controlled headphones. In 19”
“The long-reigning kings of big-sky psychedelia emerge from their Oklahoma City bunker to ask this musical question: If the Powerpuff Girls took on Black Sabbath’s "Iron Man," who would win? The answer, in this case, is the listener. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots isn’t the end-to-end triumph that was 1999’s The Soft Bulletin, still the […]”
