The Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics
CML call number: CD/ROCK/Flaming
Sean Cooper wrote in Wired: "'Garage rock with computers.' That's how Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips describes his famously chaotic band's new album. At War with the Mystics features skittering electronic rhythms and a zillion vocal overdubs that zing back and forth between the speakers before disintegrating into a cloud of pixelated dust. Like 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, this disc is unlike anything you've heard before. For most bands, that's an accomplishment unto itself. But for the Lips, the album won't really be finished until they perform it live, in front of a video backdrop (scenes from obscure newsreels, freaked-out DV footage, and even exercise videos) mixed by Coyne and the band's art director, George Salisbury. The music and visuals will be tightly synced to avoid a multimedia cacophony. 'When it works seamlessly,' Coyne says, 'we have the freedom to do a lot of pretty silly things onstage,' including strafing the audience with confetti cannons, dousing one another with fake blood, and surfing the crowd in a giant plastic bubble. In other words, it's monster garage rock with computers" ("Play: Music," 4/06, p. 52).
Sean Cooper wrote in Wired: "'Garage rock with computers.' That's how Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips describes his famously chaotic band's new album. At War with the Mystics features skittering electronic rhythms and a zillion vocal overdubs that zing back and forth between the speakers before disintegrating into a cloud of pixelated dust. Like 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, this disc is unlike anything you've heard before. For most bands, that's an accomplishment unto itself. But for the Lips, the album won't really be finished until they perform it live, in front of a video backdrop (scenes from obscure newsreels, freaked-out DV footage, and even exercise videos) mixed by Coyne and the band's art director, George Salisbury. The music and visuals will be tightly synced to avoid a multimedia cacophony. 'When it works seamlessly,' Coyne says, 'we have the freedom to do a lot of pretty silly things onstage,' including strafing the audience with confetti cannons, dousing one another with fake blood, and surfing the crowd in a giant plastic bubble. In other words, it's monster garage rock with computers" ("Play: Music," 4/06, p. 52).
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