‘Cause it’s hard to say what’s real/When you know the way you feel,’ emotes Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne on One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 from Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.
Once seen as the well-executed follow up to the psychedelic oddballs’ true d’oeuvre, 1999’s The Soft Bulletin, the Lips’ 10th now eclipses its predecessor as their go-to masterpiece. Released in 2002, this quirky concept album about pink droids and karate now looks visionary, especially in relation to the unknowns that come with AI and the way the internet dominates people’s lives.
