FLAMING LIPS, THE – YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS Goth Rock “I was guzzling wine at

“I was guzzling wine at my favorite bar in San Francisco

maybe it would have worked if it was mixed lower

If “Ciao Bella

‘Too Old Too Cold’ showed that the band was here to stay

FLAMING LIPS, THE – YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS Goth Rock “I was guzzling wine at" So let's just come right out and say it: after the one two punch of Zaireeka and The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is a bold and inventive work, brimming with ideas and sublime moments of brilliance. But it's also unfocused and top heavy, a concept album about robots and karate that, somewhere along the line, strays into languorous, contemplative songs about mortality and death. Nor does Yoshimi always put the Lips' best foot