At War With The Mystics
| Flaming Lips
At War With The Mystics
At War with the Mystics is the eleventh studio album by American rock band The Flaming Lips, released on April 3, 2006 by Warner Bros. Records. The album is more guitar-driven and features more politically themed lyrics than the band's previous two albums The Soft Bulletin (1999) and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002). -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Indie legends' first new album in four years-- widely tipped to be the group's return to a more guitar-centric sound-- is stylistically diverse and colored by distant, queasy prodcution.
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The Guardian
At War With the Mystics falls short of being a masterpiece, but the more you listen to it, the more it adds up.
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Slant
At War with the Mystics finds the band striking out in a lot of familiar directions, but also quite a few new ones. It’s bracing, gargantuan rock that sounds like little else out there and will no doubt land on many year-end lists.
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Prefix
With so many more ears eagerly awaiting a taste of At War With the Mystics, Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins and Steven Drozd know they probably could fart on record and still get hundreds to line up to hear it. Instead, they put out another solid album that represents their unadulterated ingenuity and continued pursuit of sonic experimentation.
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Drowned in Sound
It's a record that reminds the writer that it's okay to love music; that just liking it enough to pen a few words isn't a worthwhile investment. That it’s a certainty for inclusion in critical end-of-year top tens is a given.
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Sputnik Music
Though not flawless, this album really captures all of the genres that the mysterious Flaming Lips have taken over the years, and balances it out to be an epic dose of old and new. While they're last albums were full of fury towards, mainly, George Bush, this album has been described as the Flaming Lips' social acceptance album.
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Music OMH
So, At War With The Mystics is another almost great album – but even a very good album from the Flaming Lips possesses more imagination and ambition than 90% of other bands’ efforts.
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Noripcord
So what we find on Mystics are long, lovely pastoral passages, joyfully freaky guitar outbursts, thundering bass lines that would have made Chris Squire wet his pants, and waves of synths and mellotrons appearing in gorgeous swells.
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Contact Music
The album takes a dip in the middle, after an awesome opening threesome, but finishes strong. It is easy to imagine that this is where the Beach Boys Pet Sounds may have ended up 30 years on had Brian Wilson's muse held - all full of beauty, melody, weirdness and just great alternative pop music.
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